Senior Agent Evaluation Engineer, AI Evaluation Platform

Apple Inc

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Seattle, WA
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$175,000–$263,300 / yr
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2 days ago
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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 · Senior Agent Evaluation Engineer, AI Evaluation Platform

The Senior Agent Evaluation Engineer, AI Evaluation Platform joins the Apple Services Engineering team to define how the company measures generative AI agent performance. Working within a team of 7-12 engineers, you will build and ship features for an evaluation platform, including APIs, SDKs, orchestration components, and evaluation runners. Your daily work involves building real agents to evaluate multi-turn trajectories, tool-use chains, and non-deterministic outputs while validating LLM judges against human labels. You will productionize ML research into reliable services using Python, FastAPI, and Pydantic. The role requires expertise in measuring variance across trials, scoring drift, and trajectory scoring. You will solve the technical challenge of closing the gap between rapid agent development and the need for rigorous, trustworthy evaluation methodologies across the company's generative AI systems.

What you'll do

  • Build and ship production features including APIs, SDKs, orchestration components, and evaluation runners.
  • Develop and evaluate AI agents featuring multi-turn trajectories, tool-use chains, and non-deterministic outputs.
  • Write evaluation suites and validate LLM judges against human labels to measure reliability.
  • Productionize ML research by translating prototype code into reliable, scalable Python services.
  • Create SDKs and abstractions to improve the developer experience for other teams evaluating models.
  • Maintain operational ownership by writing tests, setting up CI, and monitoring production metrics.
  • Identify and fix codebase issues such as flaky tests, slow builds, and outdated runbooks.

What we're looking for

  • 4-8 years of software engineering experience shipping production software.
  • Experience building LLM agents with tool use, multi-step workflows, context management, and error recovery.
  • Experience designing agent evaluations including non-deterministic outputs, multi-trial measurement, and trajectory scoring.
  • Ability to build LLM judges and validate them against human agreement.
  • Proficiency in Python with FastAPI and Pydantic.
  • Fluency with AI coding tools like Claude Code or equivalents.
  • Experience working on developer platforms, internal tools, or SDKs (preferred).
  • Production experience with LLM/agent systems, job orchestration frameworks, or distributed compute (preferred).

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