Senior AI-Driven Automation Tools Engineer

Socket.dev; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a senior engineer to lead automation and AI-assisted workflows for security hardening across iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. You’ll design harnesses, infrastructure, and developer tooling that enable trustworthy, scalable tooling for engineers building security-critical features.

You will shape how AI-native development is applied to security work, determining where agents speed us up and where they must be cautious, while collaborating with SEAR and OS teams to

Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Swift, Objective-C, or Python with a track record of building tools, frameworks, or infrastructure that other engineers depend on.
• Experience designing and deploying automated verification at scale, including harnesses and CI systems.
• Real fluency with AI-assisted development using LLMs, coding agents, or tooling you’ve built to increase productivity and explainable results.
• Owned an ambiguous technical problem crossing team boundaries and driven it to a landed outcome.
• Able to explain technical trade-offs clearly to influence partner teams.

Responsibilities

• Design the automation harnesses, infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows to verify security-critical code across OS components.
• Decide where automation adds value and build it to scale with the team’s needs.
• Own the approach to proving security claims without degrading user experience.
• Explore what AI-native development looks like on a security team and where AI adds real speed without compromising trust.

Skills

Swift

Objective-C

Python

AI-assisted development

Automation tooling

Tools

XCTest

Xcode

CI/CD pipelines

LLM tooling

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a senior engineer to lead automation and AI-assisted workflows for security hardening across iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS. You’ll design harnesses, infrastructure, and developer tooling that enable trustworthy, scalable tooling for engineers building security-critical features.

You will shape how AI-native development is applied to security work, determining where agents speed us up and where they must be cautious, while collaborating with SEAR and OS teams to