Evals Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Emerging · in 0% of HN hiring posts · 7 open roles at 7 companies · median $238k
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago7 of 7 companies
Open roles
| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Cyber Evaluations Engineer AnthropicRemote-Friendly, United States; San Francisco, CA | Washington, DC$300k to $405k | Anthropic | Remote-Friendly, United States; San Francisco, CA | Washington, DC | $300k to $405k |
Senior Software Engineer, Evaluation Engine VantaRemote U.S.$195k to $229k | Vanta | Remote U.S. | $195k to $229k |
Software Engineer - Evals xAI Palo Alto, CA$175k to $275k | xAI | Palo Alto, CA | $175k to $275k |
Senior Software Engineer, Eval Authoring APIs WaymoMountain View,CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA $213k to $263k | Waymo | Mountain View,CA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA | $213k to $263k |
Backend Software Engineer (Evals) OpenAISan Francisco$266k to $445k | OpenAI | San Francisco | $266k to $445k |
Software Engineer, Evaluation Platform / Infra Thinking Machines LabSan Francisco | Thinking Machines Lab | San Francisco | Not stated |
Software Engineer, Agent Evaluation and Quality CursorSan Francisco | Cursor | San Francisco | Not stated |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
0 posts since Apr 2011September 2026 0 of 256 postings, 0%
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About this title
Measures model and agent quality: builds eval suites, graders and the dashboards teams ship against.
Also counted: evaluation engineer, model evaluation
Median posted salary $238k from 5 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
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