Hardware Security Researcher — Red Team & AI-Driven Defense

Apple, Inc.; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple seeks a skilled security engineer to advance low-level protection for its silicon and devices. You will help secure boot, firmware, and system integrity across Apple Silicon and wireless chipsets, contributing to architectures and validation across new designs.

You will collaborate with diverse teams and partners to design and implement innovative security features, reverse engineer exploits when needed, and drive rigorous verification of firmware and hardware security.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of LLM technologies and agent architectures.
• Experience applying LLMs to validation tooling or security research.
• Proven track record in finding security vulnerabilities in shipping products.

Responsibilities

• Mature our AI-based security review capabilities.
• Provide direct hardware and firmware security design assistance.
• Create tools to automate security verification and testing.
• Audit security critical firmware and hardware.
• Reverse engineer exploits, if necessary.

Skills

LLM technologies

Context management

Agent architectures

Python scripting

C/C++

Objective-C

Kernel programming

Reverse engineering

Security tooling

Audit code

Tools

IDA Pro

Job description

Apple seeks a skilled security engineer to advance low-level protection for its silicon and devices. You will help secure boot, firmware, and system integrity across Apple Silicon and wireless chipsets, contributing to architectures and validation across new designs.

You will collaborate with diverse teams and partners to design and implement innovative security features, reverse engineer exploits when needed, and drive rigorous verification of firmware and hardware security.