Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, LLM Evaluation & Automation
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 95% of similar roles. Most pay $143,912–$197,750 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $242k 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
Apple Inc currently has 3497 open roles on FindRole.
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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 live populations. You will develop LLM-as-a-judge evaluation harnesses, curate eval sets and rubrics, and build tooling for image and natural-language generation. Key responsibilities include integrating these into CI/automation pipelines, triaging results, and creating reusable libraries. Required skills include Python, data-pipeline fluency with JSON/YAML and REST APIs, and software engineering fundamentals. You will solve technical problems regarding model quality, correctness beyond string matching, and detecting behavior regressions across generative AI features using SQL, Jupyter, and Xcode.
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