Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, LLM Evaluation & Automation
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 98% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$202,800 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $176k for comparable roles.
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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
Apple Inc currently has 1984 open roles on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs $175,000–$277,600 across 1590 roles with salary data.
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Senior Software Development Engineer in Test — LLM Evaluation & Automation, T3E joins the Apple Intelligence Platform Experience Validation team to lead automated model evaluation as a core discipline. This individual contributor role focuses on building infrastructure and tooling to catch model regressions before they reach human evaluation or live populations. You will design and maintain LLM-as-a-judge evaluation harnesses, curate eval sets and rubrics, and develop test coverage ranging from low-level components to end-to-end user flows for generative features like image and natural-language generation. The role requires proficiency in Python, data pipelines, REST APIs, SQL, and Xcode. You will collaborate with modeling and infrastructure teams to ensure model quality is a measurable signal. Key technical focuses include evaluating content for intent alignment, detecting behavior regressions, and managing large datasets while addressing bias and fairness considerations.
What does a Software Development Engineer in Test earn in California?
Median $208400 from 30 postings across 6 companies.
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