Secure Image Provenance Systems Engineer

Apple, Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Apple employee stock programs

Discretionary bonuses or commission | 

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive medical and dental cover

Retirement benefits

Discounted products and free services

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Systems Engineer to own key parts of the Reference Image architecture, spanning sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture pipelines, and cloud development in PCC for processing and signing, underpinning secure provenance and authenticity.

You’ll collaborate with Security, Privacy, and multiple stakeholder teams across hardware, software, and cloud, articulating tradeoffs, and helping steer future hardware generations to deliver trusted, verifiable

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 5+ years of industry experience.
• Knowledge of cryptographic signing, certificates, secure boot, and revocation.
• Ability to work with Security and Privacy teams.
• Ability to coordinate with hardware, platform software, cloud, privacy, legal, QA on changing requirements.
• Excellent communication to explain tradeoffs to both engineers and non‑engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture for Reference Image across sensor to PCC.
• Design key rotation and certificate lifecycle frameworks.
• Collaborate on threat-modeling end-to-end media authenticity workflows.
• Advance image container formats for secure provenance and metadata.
• Coordinate integration points with PCC/Cloud infra to scale signing.
• Present tradeoffs in cross-functional forums and align dependencies.
• Plan for future hardware generations under the DRI.

Skills

Cryptographic signing

Security & privacy collaboration

Cross-team communication

Hardware-software integration

Ambiguity management

Education

BS in CS/EE or related field

Tools

DNG formats

JPEG/HEIF formats

PCC / confidential compute

Certificate lifecycle tooling

Job description

Apple, Inc. in Cupertino, CA is seeking a Systems Engineer to own key parts of the Reference Image architecture, spanning sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture pipelines, and cloud development in PCC for processing and signing, underpinning secure provenance and authenticity.

You’ll collaborate with Security, Privacy, and multiple stakeholder teams across hardware, software, and cloud, articulating tradeoffs, and helping steer future hardware generations to deliver trusted, verifiable