# Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer, AI Evaluation

Join Apple Services Engineering to build the next generation of AI evaluation systems. We are seeking a staff machine learning platform engineer to lead the architectural design and development of the high availability services and internal tools powering self-service evaluation at scale. You will partner with researchers to operationalize their innovations, transforming complex workflows into intuitive, developer-first platforms. We are looking for builders who thrive in the ambiguity of new initiatives and are passionate about creating scalable infrastructure. Description We're building the evaluation platform that will serve all of Apple's generative AI and agent systems. This is early-stage work - some scrappy components exist, much is greenfield and we need a staff engineer who can take it from here to org-wide self-service scale. This is not a "maintain the infra" role. You'll make consequential decisions about what to build, what to integrate, and what to say no to then ship it in Python with a small team. Minimum Qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of owning platform-level technical direction. 0-to-1 builder who designs for scale.

- **Id**: 2993448
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/apple-staff-machine-learning-platform-engineer-ai-evaluation>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-04-21T23:19:04Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T10:02:01Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 204
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2898
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Operating Systems, Laptops, Smartwatches & Fitness Trackers, Tablets

## Company

- **Id**: 12
- **Name**: Apple
- **Domain**: apple.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/apple>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Apple Jobs

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 94
- **Open postings**: 1125
- **Ghost share**: 0.001
- **Stale share**: 0.036
- **Repost share**: 0.02
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 148
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 274000
- **Max usd**: 549000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 844

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **FastAPI** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **Pydantic** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rust** — Optional: no
- **Temporal** — Optional: no
- **Dask** — Optional: yes
- **LLM** — Optional: yes
- **Ray** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 1
- **Days open**: 204

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-21T10:28:12Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-21T16:58:38Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-11T11:26:07Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-11T22:29:36Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-12T09:55:57Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6,350 · green card filings: 39; Filings 12m: 6350

## Liveness

- **Score**: 34
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.776
- **P room**: 0.44
- **Age days**: 204
- **Expected fill days**: 148
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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