Research Scientist / Engineer, Foundation Model Evaluation

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Salary

$181K-$318K From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Market context

U.S. role benchmark (BLS OEWS)

$116,543 U.S. median for this role

Projected growth (BLS Employment Projections)

+9.8% - Much faster than average

114% above the BLS role benchmark for software engineering aggregate.

Matched to SOC 15-1252 - Software Engineering aggregate by role bucket.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS, May 2024 and Employment Projections, 2024-2034.

Role

Role function

Engineering From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

Seniority

Mid From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Public-company From the posting source checked Jun 20, 2026

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Offered Verified - SEC 10-K source checked Jun 20, 2026

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About this role

Research Scientist / Engineer, Foundation Model Evaluation Cupertino, United States of America We build frontier foundation models that power intelligent experiences at Apple. Our team works across the full training lifecycle: including pre-training foundation models, and developing mid-training approaches that bridge general capability and task-specific performance. What makes our work distinct is that we're engineering models specifically for Apple silicon and optimized for experiences that are private, personal, and deeply integrated into the OS. We're solving frontier problems in reward modeling to resist reward hacking, handling sparse and delayed rewards in agentic settings, and aligning models reliably across the spectrum from open-ended creative tasks to precise, action-taking workflows. If you're drawn to hard problems where the research and the product are inseparable, this is the team. This is a hands-on role focused on the models that power Apple products used daily by over a billion people. You will design evaluation systems where the outcome is not just a score, but an actionable signal - one that drives model improvement and predicts real user experience. Working alongside model training and product teams, you will close the loop between evaluation and improvement. Our work spans three areas: • Frontier capability assessment: benchmarking against the state of the art in reasoning, code, knowledge, and agentic workflows • Product-aligned evaluation: measuring model quality in ways that reflect real user experience • Evaluation-to-training integration: feeding actionable insights back into the model development cycle You may focus on one area or work across multiple, depending on

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