Principal Evaluation Architect, Siri Evaluation Engineering

Apple Inc

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Location
Cupertino, CA
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$257,400–$386,300 / yr
Posted
2 days ago
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99+ roles within 25 mi

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TL;DR · Principal Evaluation Architect, Siri Evaluation Engineering

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The Principal Evaluation Architect role at Siri Evaluation Engineering involves owning the technical architecture for Siri’s evaluation infrastructure, encompassing real-device automation, simulated product evaluation, AI-powered auto-evaluators, developer workflows, and observability tooling. This senior position requires deep expertise in system design, API creation, service architecture, data flow modeling, and schema evolution while ensuring architectural coherence across teams. The ideal candidate will have a background in designing large-scale distributed systems and experience with CI/CD, testing strategies, and complex multi-service debugging. Preferred qualifications include extensive knowledge of AI-assisted software development workflows, evaluation infrastructure for AI/ML products, MLOps principles, observability platforms, and leading cross-team architectural initiatives in organizations with over 50 engineers. This role directly impacts how Apple evaluates its critical AI products, influencing the speed, confidence, and quality of Siri’s global deployment.

Skills

CI/CD API design service architecture data flow modeling system monitoring debugging complex multi-service systems MLOps VM orchestration fleet management job scheduling systems simulation and service virtualization observability platforms metrics logging tracing dashboarding SLOs agentic AI systems LLM applications LLM-as-judge evaluation frameworks offline evaluation pipelines

What you'll do

  • Define the technical architecture for Siri's evaluation infrastructure across various systems.
  • Embed with teams to understand their systems and make balanced architectural decisions.
  • Lead a review of existing evaluation tooling to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.
  • Influence build-vs-integrate decisions and set standards for consistent development practices.
  • Represent technical perspectives in leadership discussions, impacting the quality and speed of Siri releases.

What we're looking for

  • BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field with 10+ years software engineering experience.
  • At least 5 years in systems architecture, staff engineer, or technical leadership role.
  • Proven track record of designing and shipping large-scale distributed systems for multiple teams.
  • Deep expertise in system design including API design, service architecture, data flow modeling.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals with production experience in CI/CD, testing strategies.

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