Software Engineer, Evaluation Engineering
Apple Inc
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This role pays more than 65% of similar roles. Most pay $135,000–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $188k versus about $174k 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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Software Engineer - Evaluation Engineering will join the Siri organization to develop foundational on-device execution harnesses and runtime infrastructure for agentic evaluation. The role involves building core harnesses, environment control layers, and trace collection pipelines to enable downstream teams to evaluate agentic reasoning, tool use, and personal context actions across the Apple ecosystem. You will design low-level orchestration tooling for dynamic agent simulations, manage local device states, and ensure high-fidelity trace generation across heterogeneous hardware including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Watch, and Vision Pro. The position requires proficiency in Swift, C++, or Objective-C, along with Python for scripting and automation. Key responsibilities include optimizing harness performance against thermal and memory limits while building CLI tools and integration hooks to support seamless testing within local development environments and continuous pipelines for on-device AI systems.
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