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 $143,912–$197,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $255k versus about $171k 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
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The Senior Software Development Engineer in Test — LLM Evaluation & Automation, T3E joins the Apple Intelligence Platform Experience Validation team to lead the design and implementation of automated model evaluation. This hands-on role involves building infrastructure to catch model regressions before they reach human evaluation or the live population. You will develop LLM-as-a-judge evaluation harnesses, curate eval sets and rubrics, and build tooling for both component-level and end-to-end user flows. Key responsibilities include validating image and natural-language generation, assessing correctness beyond string matching, and packaging reusable libraries for other teams. Required skills include Python, data-pipeline fluency with JSON/YAML and REST APIs, and experience with CI/CD, SQL, and Jupyter. You will solve technical problems regarding generative AI behavior, dataset bias, and automated quality gates.
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