Senior Software Development Engineer in Test — LLM Evaluation & Automation, T3E
Apple
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Cupertino, CA · $185k–$325k a year · Posted November 5, 2026
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About the job
...and implementation of automated model evaluation: standing up LLM- as-a-judge in existing and new pipelines, and building the infrastructure... ...demonstrated ability to ramp into it quickly.Strong software engineering fundamentals — able to define atomic, composable components and...