Machine Learning Engineer
Job Description
Build evaluation systems for personalized, agentic search quality across Apple products.
Responsibilities
- Create scalable, automated, end-to-end evaluation systems for models and search-powered applications
- Develop new methods for data generation and data quality assessment to support personal agentic search evaluation
- Design and implement offline and online metrics to measure quality at both product and component levels for personal agentic search
- Work with partner teams to define evaluation and data requirements, align on priorities, and identify improvements for the personal search stack
- Set a long-term technical direction for personal search quality by spotting problem areas and driving solutions across the roadmap
Requirements
- Experience designing and building production ML systems and applications in areas such as search, NLP, recommendation systems, or information retrieval
- Experience with data collection and/or data generation and/or data quality assessment across language, image, or multi-modal data
- Strong background in developing quality metrics, interpreting evaluation results, and communicating findings to an executive audience
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent industry experience
- 6+ years of industry experience building machine learning or ML evaluation systems at scale
- Strong software engineering skills in mainstream languages including Python and C/C++
- Ability to prototype ideas and solutions quickly, with strong critical analysis
- Strong communication skills and experience driving solutions in collaboration with partner teams
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or related field
Technologies
- Python
- C/C++
Location
- Cupertino, CA (onsite)
Pay & Benefits
- Base pay range: USD 184,700 - 324,800 per year
- Medical and dental coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Discounted products and free services
- Education reimbursement for certain expenses, including tuition
- Discretionary bonuses or commission payments, and relocation (if eligible)
- Apple shareholder opportunity via discretionary employee stock programs (RSUs) and eligibility for Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a discount
- Opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within the role