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Senior Manager, Evaluation, Services Special Projects

Cupertino, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-10-23 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead a team of applied scientists and ML engineers to build evaluation methods, datasets, and automated grading systems for a conversational AI product, ensuring quality before and after release.

Role type

Senior Manager, Evaluation (Hands-on IC with team leadership)

Builds

Automated grading systems, evaluation datasets, rubrics, and quality signals for LLM-based conversational experiences

Domain

AI/ML, Conversational AI, Search & Ranking

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning evaluation, LLM-based autograders and rubrics, conversational AI evaluation, statistics and experimental design, team leadership, stakeholder management

Preferred skills

Agentic or tool-use system evaluation, relevance and ranking evaluation, groundedness and factuality evaluation, logging infrastructure, synthetic data generation, privacy-preserving evaluation

Technologies

LLMs, A/B testing, automated grading systems

Responsibilities

Design and run evaluation for conversational AI layers (interpretation, retrieval, ranking, action execution), set technical direction for LLM autograders, partner with engineering to ship fixes, present quality status to senior leadership, mentor and recruit team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management