SWE - Security Research Engineer, SEAR (User Land)

TN United Kingdom; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Security Research Engineer to join their innovative team. In this role, you will help secure some of the most advanced consumer devices, ensuring user privacy and data protection. You will engage in diverse tasks such as vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, and developing new security mitigations that will be deployed on billions of devices. This opportunity allows you to collaborate with various teams and contribute to the security of widely used technologies like iMessage and FaceTime. If you have a strong technical background and a desire to make a meaningful impact in cybersecurity, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Strong technical strengths with a passion for securing systems.
• Experience in vulnerability finding and developing security mitigations.

Responsibilities

• Lead research and analysis in identifying vulnerabilities across platforms.
• Develop intelligent automated tools for vulnerability finding.

Skills

Security Engineering

Vulnerability Analysis

Reverse Engineering

Automated Tools Development

Code Review

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Security Tools

Development Tools

Job description

SWE - Security Research Engineer, SEAR (User Land), Cheltenham

Client:

Apple

Location:

Cheltenham

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

0879d6d51c78

Job Views:

7

Posted:

02.04.2025

Expiry Date:

17.05.2025

Job Description:

Summary:
Help Apple secure the world’s most advanced consumer devices, which people trust to store their personal and professional data. Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) is at the core of Apple’s product security strategy and we’re fanatical about protecting our users. We're looking for an enthusiastic security engineer to join our growing team whose focus is on securing the technologies that power some of our most loved features, such as iMessage, FaceTime, Home and many more. As a security engineer in SEAR, you will lead research and analysis in identifying vulnerabilities and trends across our platforms, invent new defensive technologies to eliminate entire classes of issues, and drive the delivery of security mitigations alongside our partner engineering teams. We design and secure platforms for billions of users and are committed to user privacy and security. We have some of the most creative, passionate, hardworking engineers in the industry. Our team challenges each other to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer, easier, and more fun to use.

Key Qualifications:
You are joining an exceptional team focusing on securing our remote attack surfaces across Apple platforms. From iMessage to media formats and FaceTime to memory allocators, you will be working alongside a wide variety of teams and vendors and your influence will be felt throughout Apple's extraordinary products, including: iPhone, Apple Vision Pro, Mac and Apple TV. In addition, you will be responsible for identifying threats in advance and directly involved in Apple's response to critical issues as they arise. The job is as diverse as it is essential, from reverse engineering an exploit, providing insightful analysis and creating innovative tools, consulting with other teams on both hardware and software, to reviewing code and proposing designs for new security mitigations which will ship on billions of devices. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and a passionate desire to secure systems. Your responsibilities will include helping to make Apple's products the industry's most secure, evaluating security-critical code, developing intelligent automated tools for vulnerability finding, building exploits for discovered vulnerabilities to challenge existing mitigation techniques, providing security focused consultations on key technology areas to partner teams and driving the design and development of new mitigations. This position may require some travel to other Apple sites, vendors, and security conferences.

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