AI-Powered Security Automation Engineer

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead to architect and drive an AI-assisted Security Automation Platform within ASE Security. You will design an agentic review system and scalable pipelines that turn security expertise into running software across thousands of services.

Lead the integration with findings, SBOM, and risk governance tools while ensuring high quality, reliable software with SLAs, runbooks, and extensive observability. Location is Seattle, WA, with global impact.

Qualifications

• 1 year of building LLM- or agent-based systems that ran in production, with a measured quality bar
• 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services
• Highly proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or Java
• Experience integrating third-party and first-party APIs, tooling, and services into reliable end-to-end workflows and AI agent workflows
• Working knowledge of application and cloud security concepts (threat modeling, vulnerabilities, secure configuration)
• MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design system and interfaces that make Apple's existing security systems agent-consumable
• Build and maintain the review automation pipeline that ingests a service, runs AI-assisted threat modeling and triage, and produces structured, reviewable output at scale
• Implement the AI skills and routing criteria defined by our security standards engineers, meeting quality targets for precision, recall, and false positives
• Integrate the pipeline with existing security engineering tooling (findings, vulnerability intelligence, SBOM, scanning, and risk-acceptance systems) rather than standing up parallel foundations
• Build the quality feedback loop so signals from reviewer validation continuously improve the automation
• Be accountable for quality software that meets service level objectives, with runbooks, tests, and observability so no system depends on a single person
• Own prompt, skill, and model versioning as code, with the eval gates
• Research, prototype, and present ideas and designs to your team, management, and internal customers

Skills

Python

Go

Java

LLM/Agent-based systems

APIs integration

Education

MS/BS in CS/Engineering

Tools

SAST/SCA scanners

SBOM tooling

AWS services

Step Functions

Job description

Apple Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead to architect and drive an AI-assisted Security Automation Platform within ASE Security. You will design an agentic review system and scalable pipelines that turn security expertise into running software across thousands of services.

Lead the integration with findings, SBOM, and risk governance tools while ensuring high quality, reliable software with SLAs, runbooks, and extensive observability. Location is Seattle, WA, with global impact.