Machine Learning Engineer - AI & ML Evaluation Frameworks

Cupertino Until 9/21/2026 3+ years exp First posted July 23, 2026 Last posted July 23, 2026
Job description

The Health Sensing Machine Learning Interpretability & Analytics (MLIA) team ensures clinical rigor and contextual trust are at the foundation of Apple’s health sensing features. We are looking for an exceptional ML Engineer to help us build the next generation of scalable evaluation infrastructure and lead rigorous investigations into model performance. You will develop cutting-edge tools, synthetic data pipelines, and automated frameworks that ensure our health features are mathematically sound, demographically equitable, and clinically safe. If you are passionate about AI safety, robust software architecture, and pushing the boundaries of ML innovation, come join us!

Description

In this role, you will architect and build large-scale evaluation frameworks to interrogate unimodal ML systems and multi-modal foundation models. Beyond infrastructure, you will lead deep-dive ML evaluations, performing failure analysis to uncover performance gaps, reasoning flaws, and edge cases. You will translate findings into actionable insights and work directly with algorithm teams to improve the safety and reliability of our health features. Your work will empower teams across Apple to rapidly evaluate multi-modal sensor fusion while upholding Apple's privacy standards.

Minimum Qualifications

BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field
3+ years of experience in ML Engineering or Applied ML
Strong experience in evaluating supervised, unsupervised, LLMs and deep learning models.
Proficiency in Python with the ability to write production-grade code (OOP, CI/CD, Git)
Hands-on experience in failure analysis, evaluating LLMs and driving subsequent model improvements
Experience building data pipelines, inference frameworks, and automated evaluation systems
Strong communication skills to articulate complex technical concepts across technical and non-technical audiences

Preferred Qualifications

MS/PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or related field
Experience evaluating LLMs or agentic systems (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge, RAG evaluation)
Experience with synthetic data generation and prompt engineering
Experience in parallel data processing (Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow) or privacy-preserving ML (Federated Learning)
Background in AI Safety, model interpretability, or adversarial testing
Interest in digital health and clinical rigor

About this role

Summary

Develop evaluation infrastructure, perform ML failure analysis, improve model safety and performance.

Job title

Machine Learning Engineer - AI & ML Evaluation Frameworks

Experience level

3+ years

Minimum experience

3+ years exp

Industry

healthcare

Location requirements

Cupertino, on-site preferred, remote possible

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

PythonML evaluationfailure analysisdata pipelinesGit

Preferred skills

LLMs evaluationsynthetic dataparallel processingfederated learningAI safety

Specializations

evaluation frameworksML safetymodel interpretabilitydata pipelinesdeep learning
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

On-site City