Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Evaluation, Agentic Search Capabilities
Apple· Machine Learning and AI
Cupertino, CA$206.2k - $356.4kFull-timePosted 1w ago
About the role
Machine Learning Engineering Manager responsible for leading a team that designs and builds evaluation systems for personalized Agentic Search experiences powering Siri, Spotlight, Safari, and more. Focus on offline/online metrics, data generation, and quality assessment to advance personalized Siri Search while preserving user privacy.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of applied machine learning and software engineers to design and build scalable, automated systems for end-to-end evaluation of personalized Agentic Search
- Contribute to the design and implementation of offline and online metrics to assess quality at the product and component level for Personal Question Answering, and drive iterative improvement
- Collaborate with partner teams to define data and evaluation requirements, set priorities, and identify opportunities to enhance the Personal Question Answering stack
- Define the long-term technical vision for personalized Siri Search quality, identify gaps, and drive solutions as part of a broader roadmap
Qualifications
- 6 or more years of industry experience building machine learning or machine learning evaluation systems at scale
- 2 or more years of industry experience in technical leadership or management
- Knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, neural network architectures, and software engineering in Python or C/C++
- Communication and collaboration skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field
- Experience designing and building production machine learning systems in search, natural language processing, recommendation systems, or information retrieval
- Experience in data collection, data generation, or data quality assessment of language, image, or multimodal data
- Advanced degree (Master's or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience
Skills
Required:Machine LearningEvaluation SystemsPython or C/C++Data Generation and QualityLeadershipCommunication
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- retirement benefits
- discounted products and free services
- reimbursement for certain educational expenses—including tuition
- discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation eligibility
- Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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