Security Engineer

Apple Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer in Austin, Texas, to join the Apple Pay Security Engineering team. In this role, you will develop AI workflows for security testing and integrate best practices across the lifecycle of software development.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in security engineering and hands-on experience with security testing. You'll work collaboratively across teams while ensuring the highest standards of security and customer safety.

Apple promotes a diverse and inclusive environment, valuing accessibility and equal opportunity for all applicants.

Qualifications

• Experience with threat modeling of hardware and software designs.
• Hands-on experience with security testing and code reviews.
• Familiarity with agentic/LLM-based coding tools.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI workflows for security reviews and testing.
• Integrate security best practices in the software development lifecycle.
• Perform hands-on testing of hardware and software.

Skills

Security engineering foundation

AI/agentic fluency

Problem solving

Communication skills

Job description

Austin, Texas, United States Software and Services

Do you want first crack at new Apple Pay products? Come help them be more secure by breaking them first!Join our Apple Pay Security Engineering team and help us deliver the safest and best user-experience. We work on Payments, Transit, Access, & Identity, across hardware, software, and server. If you're passionate about digital security and customer safety, we may have the job for you.

Description

You're a security engineer at heart: a pentester who breaks hardware, software, and services to find what others miss. You use AI to move faster and improve the tooling as you go: not shipping product features but building the Skills, Agents, and workflows that make our security testing sharper. Above all, you can disagree with the AI, prove it wrong, and make it better instead of rubber-stamping its results.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI workflows to perform security review and security testing
• Develop Skills and Agents that instill security best practices into every phase of the SDLC: design, implementation, review, build/CI-CD, and post‑launch
• Threat model development and secure design assessment of hardware and software
• Hands‑on testing of hardware and software
• Validate and challenge AI findings, not just consume them

Minimum Qualifications

• Drive and agency: You know how to use tools to learn new areas, experiment, and develop security issue discovery capabilities. You’re curious and interested in learning new areas. You have a sense of ownership and pride in improving the environment.
• Security engineering foundation: You’ve threat modeled hardware and/or software designs, determining where attacks would come from and what protections exist in a design. You’ve performed hands‑on security testing (pentesting, negative testing, or equivalent). You’re skilled at security code reviews.
• AI/agentic fluency: You have hands‑on experience using agentic/LLM‑based coding tools. You’re able to build and refine Skills, Agents and AI workflows, not just operate them. You’re able to independently verify or refute a finding rather than accept it at face value.

Preferred Qualifications

• Superior problem solving and debugging skills
• Understanding of the use of various cryptographic algorithms (RSA, AES, SHA, etc.)
• Able to clearly communicate across many teams (Can you nicely tell the developer that they have a bug?)
• Ability to propose new designs and architectural improvements (Can you redesign what you just broke?)
• Experience either shipping software or integrating security into every stage of the software lifecycle.

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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