Secure Design Engineer, SEAR

Embedded within Apples Security Engineering u0026 Architecture organization the Secure Design teams mission is to ensure that the software we ship to our customers is secure. We believe that when it comes to building the worlds most secure operating systems collaboration is key. Were looking for a talented and inspired individual to join our group of security engineers to attack Apples products before they ship with the goal of better safeguarding our users. Youll become part of an exceptional organization focusing on securing Apples platforms at every layer: hardware and firmware the kernel and core runtime applications and agentic features. Working with some of the best engineers in the world your influence will have a direct positive impact on the security of Apples extraordinary products including iPhone iPad Mac Apple Watch and Apple TV. From consulting on both hardware and software threat modeling identifying vulnerabilities in code and collaborating on designs the job is as diverse as it is critical. This position requires someone with strong technical abilities and a passionate desire to secure systems by showing how they can be design and secure software for hundreds of millions of users. We make products that people LOVE. We are committed to user privacy and security. We have some of the most creative passionate hardworking engineers in the industry. We challenge each other to go beyond the norm to find new innovative ways of solving problems and to make software safer easier and more fun to use. Not many jobs can offer all of these things. Security engineering jobs at Apple do and much more.

You will be a technical specialist responsible for securing new products that Apple ships to its customers with a focus on software cooperatively and build relationships with other parts of Apple on a broad range of technologies and initiatives to enhance new and innovative ways of increasing security and privacy while preserving ease-of-use and ensuring the quality of the user with engineers to analyze systems threat model new features identify security vulnerabilities in implementation and recommend security controls to ensure customer and drive the adoption of these technologies across the ground breaking security efforts at a scale only found at Apple.

Passionate about keeping Apples customers safe with high ethical standards and integritynFamiliarity with threat modelling and security architecture designnExperience with using agentic coding tools to perform code reviews and software security testingnMotivated by pursuing and prioritizing difficult and novel problems in a highly complex environment nEffective communicator able to influence and partner with engineering teams and decision makers to accomplish security goalsnKeeps up to date with new security research technologies and methodologiesnHighly reciprocal and an excellent communicatornBachelors in Computer Science or 3 years equivalent practical experience

Experience working with engineering teams to build secure softwarenUnderstands security engineering software delivery and SDLCnProficiency in OS internals and modern mitigation techniquesnProgramming background in C C Objective-C and/or SwiftnAn understanding of past current and emerging security exploit trends including attacks against agentic software features