AIML - Senior Engineering Manager, Search Evaluations
Apple
Software Engineering, Other Engineering
Cupertino, CA, USA
Posted on Oct 18, 2024
Summary
Posted:
Role Number:200572684
Would you like to play a part in shipping groundbreaking technology for large-scale systems, natural language, and artificial intelligence? Join the Siri ML Systems Evaluation Engineering (MLSEE) team at Apple! We interact with various engineering teams to identify issues and test requirements, drive the quality of Siri features, and build frameworks that support evaluation and qualification. You will work with the people who craft the intelligent assistant that helps millions get things done — just by asking! As a senior manager, you will play a critical role in driving the evaluation methods of various platforms and product areas for Siri. You will drive coverage and fidelity of testing and evaluation for pre-ship hill climbing and readiness for a wide range of AIML products, including Apple Intelligence features. You will craft new and leverage existing methodologies and frameworks to validate the end-to-end quality of new search features. Working alongside SW and ML engineering product teams as a critical partner, you will utilize a suite of available libraries and frameworks - test automation, LLM-based evaluators, and failure analysis tools - and drive requirements for improving those. You will be responsible for benchmarking performance for new features/platforms and driving improvement recommendations.
Description
We are seeking an experienced senior engineering manager to lead Siri's intelligent services and platforms (iPhone, HomePod, CarPlay, Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook) evaluation and qualification. You will be responsible for partnerships with search engineering that will drive the test and evaluation strategy, frameworks, performance testing framework, and solutions that can scale. You will work alongside SW and ML engineering search teams as a critical partner. You will need to drive efficiency by adopting LLMs for testing and evaluation, including evaluators, auto-triage of issues, and auto-error-attribution. This role will collaborate with Search Engineering teams, create a quality strategy in partnership with the roadmap, work on client integration and performance automation frameworks, and analyze results, ranking, and recall metrics as part of the evaluation. This is a fast-paced role with high visibility, impact, and influence in building one of the most advanced AI systems in the industry.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 8+ years of leadership experience
- Experience with Machine Learning development and search evaluation
- Experience with building and shipping products at scale
- Proven and consistent track record of forming partnerships to solve complex technical problems at scale, ideally for search-based products with a global customer base
- MS/PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Science, or a related field
Key Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Passion for product and customer experience
- Extensive experience delivering large-scale products or platforms, leveraging cross-functional partnerships to drive outcomes across multiple organizations
- Excellent understanding of an ML-based product lifecycle.
- Demonstrated depth of knowledge and application of statistics-based evaluation methodologies or user success metrics.
- Strong history of delivering innovation
- Ability to develop a long-term vision and execute strategies at scale while maintaining a grasp of technical details for better decision-making
- Experience with VP-level presentations and reporting
Education & Experience
Additional Requirements
Pay & Benefits
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