Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluation and Quality, Creativity Apps

Apple Inc

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Work type
On-site
Location
San Diego, CA
Salary
$142,300–$263,300 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Below market

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluation and Quality, Creativity Apps

The Machine Learning Engineer, Evaluation and Quality, Creativity Apps joins the Creativity Apps team to own the quality and evaluation of AI features. This role involves defining evaluation strategies and metrics for ML models and LLMs, building datasets, and designing scalable evaluation infrastructure. The engineer will curate datasets, run iterative improvement loops, and apply agentic workflows for automated judging and test generation. Key responsibilities include driving end-to-end quality from model checkpoints to shipping features, triaging issues, and reporting risk to technical and non-technical audiences. Required skills include proficiency in Python and/or Swift, knowledge of the ML development cycle, and experience with LLM evaluation. The work focuses on ensuring high-quality AI features for creative applications, specifically addressing image and video quality metrics and color science.

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What you'll do

  • Define evaluation strategies and metrics for ML models, LLMs, and AI features tailored to specific product use cases.
  • Curate and create high-quality evaluation datasets and manage iterative improvement loops to ensure data remains representative.
  • Design, build, and optimize scalable evaluation infrastructure with reproducible runs and tracked baselines.
  • Apply LLMs and agentic workflows to automate judging, test generation, and analysis for more efficient evaluation.
  • Drive end-to-end quality from model checkpoints to shipping features, including triaging and resolving issues.
  • Translate evaluation results into clear ship/no-ship risk recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of industry experience in machine learning or software engineering, focusing on ML/AI model evaluation and quality.
  • Experience with evaluation methodology for ML models, LLMs, and AI products or features.
  • Strong understanding of the ML development cycle, including data, training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Solid machine learning fundamentals and LLM knowledge, including agentic workflows.
  • Track record of applying LLMs or agentic workflows to ML evaluation and quality.
  • Experience in data curation, dataset creation, and dataset quality with iterative improvement workflows.
  • Experience designing, implementing, maintaining, or optimizing ML evaluation infrastructure at scale.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

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