AI Security Engineer - Red Team

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

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental

Retirement benefits

Employee stock programs

Relocation

Job summary

Apple is seeking an AI Security Engineer in Seattle, WA, to lead deep security reviews of AI deployments, agents, and related platforms. You will collaborate with AI architecture, security engineering, privacy, SRE, and design review teams to strengthen detection capabilities and governance.

The role emphasizes reducing obscure AI risks, building repeatable testing frameworks, and delivering actionable security improvements with a metrics-driven approach.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in information security field or software engineering; 2+ years conducting security reviews
• 1+ year reviewing AI deployments such as MCPs and Agents
• 2+ years manually reviewing source code to find vulnerabilities

Responsibilities

• Enumerate risks, plan reviews, and execute those reviews to identify vulnerabilities and improvements
• Be a technical expert in obscure risks within AI deployments and platforms
• Lead security testing methodologies for AI Agents and MCPS
• Develop proof-of-concept systems to automate security recommendations and workflows
• Identify areas ripe for improvement and establish security goals

Skills

Security reviews

AI security tools

Cloud security

Vulnerability discovery

Leadership communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

AI security tools

Job description

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

We are the Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security Red Team. We focus on deep technical security review work of critical ASE services and infrastructure. These security reviews will be scoped and focused on review depth and quality. We are growing our team and looking an AI Security Engineer to lead deep reviews that identify meaningful security improvement opportunities. In this role, you will work closely with the AI platform teams, security engineering, InfoSec, privacy, SRE, detection, and design review teams to keep Apple's services and AI agents secure for our users. You will identify security weaknesses, validate and design detection mechanisms, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance our security posture. You will go beyond simple to find risks and identify obscure and complex risks within AI integrations and deployments. You will collaborate with AI architecture and engineering teams to continuously validate and improve our security controls and detection capabilities, with a strong focus on developing repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven security improvements. If you love diving into complex AI systems, and driving the security of that system over time, we want to talk to you!

Description

In this role, you will scope and lead focused security reviews on critical internet scale AI deployments that include the agents, MCPs, their platform and supporting infrastructure. You will learn services’ AI architecture and risk profile to build a scope for our AI deployments that enables a meaningful security review. You will ensure that scope focuses on the use and relevant risks of in use AI models, while maintaining the model itself as out of scope. You will use AI to expedite all stages of your work, while maintaining accountability for all outcomes. You will use your depth of knowledge to identify risks that go undetected by agentic tools and processes to reinforce and improve those processes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the enumerating risks, planning reviews, and executing those reviews to identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities
• A technical expert in uncommon and obscure risks within AI deployments and AI platforms
• A technical expert in complex business logic risks that require a depth of understanding of the agents, mcps, models, services and their architectures
• A technical expert in methodologies for security testing of AI Agents
• Ability to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establish appropriate security goals
• Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies
• Ability to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows
• Ability to effectively use AI within your workflows
• Ability to identify areas of security risk that require additional focus and review after AI has performed initial reviews
• Ability to contribute improvement opportunities to AI tool and process engineering teams

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years in an information security field or software engineering; 2 or more of those years conducting security reviews
• 1+ year reviewing AI deployments such as MCPs and Agents
• 2+ years of manually reviewing source code to assist in finding vulnerabilities
• Experience building or contributing to AI tools or AI security tools
• Ability to adapt quickly to prioritization shifts and investigate unfamiliar technologies
• Extensive infrastructure, cloud, and application security experience
• Experience communicating risk to engineering and leadership teams

Preferred Qualifications

• 8+ years in an information security field; 4 or more of those years conducting security reviews
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related, with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience)
• Ability to reason about and influence software architecture for security
• Community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, talks etc.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $175,000 and $308,500, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs.

Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

You’ll also receive benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• A range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments
• Relocation

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Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.