Product Security Engineer, SEAR

Apple Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 214,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Employee stock programs

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Seattle, Washington, is seeking a Security Engineer to investigate and mitigate critical issues across Apple products, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

You will work with top security engineers to safeguard customers by identifying vulnerabilities, building automated tools, and guiding remediation efforts. The role emphasizes reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, and collaboration with software teams to drive secure design and robust security operations

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C, C++, and Objective-C for building security automation systems.
• Familiarity with AI capabilities and their use in security contexts.
• Experience deploying production systems with containerization and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to analyze and investigate security issues using systematic approaches and tooling.
• Understanding of security principles including vulnerability classes, exploit techniques, and attack vectors.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration across technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess security vulnerabilities and contribute to tool development to optimize security operations, including our external submission portal and triage tools.

Skills

C

C++

Objective-C

AI capabilities

CI/CD pipelines

Security analysis

Communication

Job description

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

You'll be a part of the Apple Product Security Team at the forefront of Apple's security impacting the breadth of Apple's ecosystem by working on immediate risks to Apple's customers. Working with some of the best security engineers in the world, you’ll have a direct positive impact on the security of Apple’s products. We're looking for a hardworking and highly motivated engineers responsible to help investigate security issues across Apple products with the goal of better safeguarding our users.You’ll become part of an outstanding team focusing on securing iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS. Rooted in the Security Engineering and Architecture organization, you’ll be working with a wide variety of teams and vendors. Your influence will be felt throughout Apple's extraordinary products, such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and Apple TV.

Description

You will be directly involved in Apple's response to critical issues as they arise. From reverse engineering an exploit, providing insightful analysis on vulnerabilities, creating innovative tools to help find security bugs, and collaborating with engineering teams on software issues, the job is as diverse as it is critical. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and an enthusiastic drive to secure systems by showing how they can be broken.

Responsibilities

• The ideal candidate will be responsible for a mixture of our core work: assessing security vulnerabilities, along with tool development to optimize our business operations. This will include contributions to our tool suite which supports our external security submission portal, our triage and routing tools, and our AI frameworks which power operations in security engineering and across Apple.

Minimum Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (C, C++, Objective C) for building robust security automation systems
• Familiarity with common AI capabilities, such as function calling, and their application to security use cases
• Experience with production deployment using containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools
• Proven ability to analyze and investigate security issues through systematic approaches and tooling
• Understanding of security principles including vulnerability classes, exploit techniques, and common attack vectors
• Excellent communication skills for collaborating across diverse technical teams and stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience developing or leveraging security tools such as fuzzers, static/dynamic analyzers, or vulnerability management platforms
• Field experience in vulnerability research, incident response, or security operations
• Track record of shipping tools to large user bases in enterprise environments

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 $122,700 and $214,300, 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, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition.

Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

Note: Apple benefit, compensation and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program.

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant

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