Remote Offensive Security Researcher: Kernel & Userland

Apple; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture organization seeks researchers to advance offensive security across userland and kernel layers. You will tackle vulnerability research, exploit development, and security tooling, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve protections across Apple platforms.

This role emphasizes curiosity, technical rigor, and the drive to break systems to strengthen them.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in vulnerability research targeting operating systems for local privilege escalation (LPE).
• Strong understanding of vulnerability classes and exploitation techniques (memory corruption, race conditions, use-after-free).
• Fluency in applying AI techniques and tools (LLMs, ML) to security research.

Responsibilities

• Conduct offensive security research across system services, apps, the kernel and drivers, hypervisors, or other components.
• Work in cross-functional teams with other researchers and engineering groups to evaluate and strengthen layers of our products.
• Publish findings and contribute to threat models, tooling, and mitigation strategies.
• Evaluate and strengthen security across userland and kernel components to protect Apple users.

Skills

Vulnerability research

Kernel/userland exploitation

AI techniques / LLMs

Job description

Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture organization seeks researchers to advance offensive security across userland and kernel layers. You will tackle vulnerability research, exploit development, and security tooling, collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve protections across Apple platforms.

This role emphasizes curiosity, technical rigor, and the drive to break systems to strengthen them.