AI-Driven Security Engineer: Hardware & Software Testing

Cybersecurity Jobs; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple in Austin, TX is hiring a Security Engineer to strengthen the Apple Pay security by performing aggressive testing and building stronger security capabilities on-site.

Responsibilities include breaking down hardware, software, and services to uncover gaps, leveraging AI to speed up security testing, and developing Skills, Agents, and AI workflows that improve tooling. You will independently verify findings and challenge AI outputs to drive robust security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a security-focused role.
• Hands-on security testing experience including pentesting/negative testing.
• Ability to break down hardware, software and services to identify gaps.
• Threat modeling experience for hardware and/or software designs.

Responsibilities

• Break down hardware, software, and services to uncover gaps.
• Leverage AI to accelerate security testing and iteratively improve tooling.
• Build Skills, Agents, and workflows that make security testing more effective.
• Independently verify or refute findings rather than accepting results at face value.
• Challenge AI outputs, prove them wrong, and use the results to improve tooling.

Skills

Security testing

Threat modeling

Code reviews

LLM tooling

Agent frameworks

Tools

LLM tools

Security tooling

Agent-based tooling

Job description

Apple in Austin, TX is hiring a Security Engineer to strengthen the Apple Pay security by performing aggressive testing and building stronger security capabilities on-site.

Responsibilities include breaking down hardware, software, and services to uncover gaps, leveraging AI to speed up security testing, and developing Skills, Agents, and AI workflows that improve tooling. You will independently verify findings and challenge AI outputs to drive robust security.