Security Platform Automation Engineer

Apple Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Apple Inc. is seeking a Tech Lead to architect and drive an AI-assisted Security Automation Platform within ASE Security. You will design an agentic review system and scalable pipelines that turn security expertise into running software across thousands of services.

Lead the integration with findings, SBOM, and risk governance tools while ensuring high quality, reliable software with SLAs, runbooks, and extensive observability. Location is Seattle, WA, with global impact.

Qualifications

• 1 year of building LLM- or agent-based systems that ran in production, with a measured quality bar
• 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services
• Highly proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or Java
• Experience integrating third-party and first-party APIs, tooling, and services into reliable end-to-end workflows and AI agent workflows
• Working knowledge of application and cloud security concepts (threat modeling, vulnerabilities, secure configuration)
• MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering

Responsibilities

• Design system and interfaces that make Apple's existing security systems agent-consumable
• Build and maintain the review automation pipeline that ingests a service, runs AI-assisted threat modeling and triage, and produces structured, reviewable output at scale
• Implement the AI skills and routing criteria defined by our security standards engineers, meeting quality targets for precision, recall, and false positives
• Integrate the pipeline with existing security engineering tooling (findings, vulnerability intelligence, SBOM, scanning, and risk-acceptance systems) rather than standing up parallel foundations
• Build the quality feedback loop so signals from reviewer validation continuously improve the automation
• Be accountable for quality software that meets service level objectives, with runbooks, tests, and observability so no system depends on a single person
• Own prompt, skill, and model versioning as code, with the eval gates
• Research, prototype, and present ideas and designs to your team, management, and internal customers

Skills

Python

Go

Java

LLM/Agent-based systems

APIs integration

Education

MS/BS in CS/Engineering

Tools

SAST/SCA scanners

SBOM tooling

AWS services

Step Functions

Job description

Seattle, Washington, United States Machine Learning and AI

We are the Assurance Automation & Risk Management team within Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security org. We are responsible for securing the platforms, infrastructure, and distributed systems behind Apple's global services, including iCloud, App Store, Apple Music, TV+, Maps, and Commerce.Apple operates thousands of critical backend services across a rapidly expanding global footprint. We have a transformative opportunity to amplify security experts reach by building the next-generation AI-assisted Security Automation Platform. Rather than building isolated tooling, we turn expert security standards into robust, running software by combining agentic workflows, deterministic scaffolding, and rigorous evaluation gates integrated directly into Apple's core security data systems (Security Findings, Bill of Materials, and Risk Governance). We are hiring Tech Lead to lead the software architecture and agentic engineering of this platform. Your effort will help build solutions to a variety of outstanding security challenges in software supply chain, security posture, and risk management. Join us, and you'll play a meaningful role in ensuring the highest standard of security for one of the most-watched companies in the world.

Description

We're looking for an exceptional automation engineer to build the pipeline that scales security review across Apple's 1000s+ services. You will turn security expertise into running software, designing and operating AI agentic review system, skills, tool layer, evaluation harness on top of Apple's existing security tooling, and giving reviewers a reliable, high-throughput pipeline to execute against. You'll partner closely with the security engineers who define the review standards and the analysts who validate the output, and build automation that reduces toil.

Responsibilities

• Design system and interfaces that make Apple's existing security systems agent-consumable
• Build and maintain the review automation pipeline that ingests a service, runs AI-assisted threat modeling and triage, and produces structured, reviewable output at scale
• Implement the AI skills and routing criteria defined by our security standards engineers, meeting quality targets for precision, recall, and false positives
• Integrate the pipeline with existing security engineering tooling (findings, vulnerability intelligence, SBOM, scanning, and risk-acceptance systems) rather than standing up parallel foundations
• Build the quality feedback loop so signals from reviewer validation continuously improve the automation
• Be accountable for quality software that meets service level objectives, with runbooks, tests, and observability so no system depends on a single person
• Own prompt, skill, and model versioning as code, with the eval gates
• Research, prototype, and present ideas and designs to your team, management, and internal customers

Minimum Qualifications

• 1 year of building LLM- or agent-based systems that ran in production, with a measured quality bar
• 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services
• Highly proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or Java
• Experience integrating third-party and first-party APIs, tooling, and services into reliable end-to-end workflows and AI agent workflows
• Working knowledge of application and cloud security concepts (threat modeling, vulnerabilities, secure configuration)
• MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Agent engineering: retrieval, grounding, citation, reasoning
• Experience with Agentic workflow design with bounded autonomy, building LLM- or agent-based automation and evaluating output quality (precision/recall, human-in-the-loop feedback loops), AI agent evaluation harness as CI
• Familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.)
• Experience with security tooling such as SAST/SCA scanners, SBOM tooling, or vulnerability intelligence platforms
• Background in security review, threat modeling, or supply-chain security
• Experience delivering tooling used by non-engineer reviewers or contractors at scale
• Awareness of AI-specific threats in systems that ingest untrusted input

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 $175,000 and $308,500, 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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