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Cupertino, California
Source: Apple careers · View original posting
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Apple Services Engineering (ASE) powers AI and machine learning experiences across the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, and more. We build intelligent, deeply personal experiences designed to serve users around the world. Ensuring these experiences are safe, trustworthy, and representative of the diverse communities we serve is fundamental to how we develop and deploy AI.
We are seeking an experienced engineering leader to lead AI Safety Engineering & Evaluation within the Human-Centered AI organization. This role combines software engineering, machine learning, evaluation science, and Responsible AI to develop scalable capabilities for identifying, measuring, and mitigating risks associated with AI-powered experiences.
You will lead an emerging, multidisciplinary organization of engineering managers, engineers, and applied scientists, building the technical expertise, engineering practices, and organizational capabilities needed to scale AI safety evaluation. This is an opportunity to shape a growing function, developing its technical foundations while transforming manual safety assessments into automated, scientifically rigorous processes.
The ideal candidate brings strong engineering leadership, practical expertise in machine learning and modern AI systems, and demonstrated success building technical organizations and translating complex challenges into measurable engineering outcomes.
Description
As the Engineering Leader for AI Safety Engineering & Evaluation, you will lead the development and operationalization of technical capabilities to systematically assess AI model behavior, identify potential harms, and measure the effectiveness of safety mitigations.
Your organization will advance safety evaluation methodologies, model-based assessment, adversarial testing, automated risk identification, and failure analysis. In partnership with Evaluation Systems & Research (ESR), which provides shared evaluation infrastructure and services, you will integrate safety-specific models, assessment workflows, and measurement capabilities into scalable evaluation systems.
You will establish the technical direction, organizational structure, and engineering practices needed for a growing team to operate effectively. This requires a leader who can engage deeply in technical decisions, develop engineering managers and senior contributors, and progressively build the organization's ability to deliver complex technical solutions.
You will work closely with machine learning engineering, research, product, privacy, legal, and safety policy teams to translate safety requirements into measurable technical standards and actionable insights that inform AI development and deployment decisions.
At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $237,600 and $401,700, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
You’ll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation.
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