Security Engineer - Apple Pay

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

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

RSU awards

Relocation assistance

Educational reimbursement

Medical and dental coverage

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer for Apple Pay Security Engineering to help secure our payments, transit, access, and identity ecosystems across hardware, software, and server layers.

You will craft AI-driven workflows, develop Skills and Agents, and perform hands-on security testing to find and fix vulnerabilities across the stack. Strong collaboration across teams is essential to improve defenses and customer safety.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security testing (pentesting, negative testing, or similar).
• Threat modeling of hardware and software designs.
• Ability to build and refine AI-driven security workflows (Skills, Agents).
• Experience shipping software or integrating security into the SDLC.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI workflows to perform security review and testing.
• Develop Skills and Agents to instill security in SDLC phases.
• 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.

Skills

AI/agentic fluency

Threat modeling

Security testing

Code reviews

Tools

LLM-based coding tools

Job description

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Superior problem solving and debugging skills
• Understanding of the use of various cryptographic algorithms (PQC, 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.

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.
• 5+ years of experience in a Security focused role

Pay & Benefits

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 $184,700 and $324,800, 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.