Security Engineer

Apple Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 181,100 - 318,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Employee stock purchase options

Educational reimbursement

Job summary

Apple Inc. is looking for a Security Engineer to join their Apple Pay Security Engineering team in New York City. This role focuses on enhancing security through innovative AI workflows and hands-on testing of hardware and software.

The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in security engineering, experience in threat modeling, and the ability to work with AI tools to independently verify findings. Apple offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary range of $181,100 to $318,400, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in threat modeling and security testing.
• Hands-on experience with AI and LLM-based coding tools.
• Ownership and pride in improving security measures.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI workflows for security testing.
• Create Skills and Agents for SDLC security best practices.
• Conduct threat modeling and secure design assessments.
• Perform hands-on testing of hardware and software.
• Challenge and validate AI findings.

Skills

Security engineering foundation

AI/agentic fluency

Superior problem solving

Communication skills

Job description

New York City, New York, 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.

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 $181,100 and $318,400, 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

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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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