Secure Design Engineer, SEAR

Apple • Cupertino, CA

5d

About The Position

Embedded within Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture organization, the Secure Design team’s mission is to ensure that the software we ship to our customers is secure. We believe that when it comes to building the world's most secure operating systems, collaboration is key. We're looking for a talented and inspired individual to join our group of security engineers to attack Apple's products before they ship, with the goal of better safeguarding our users. You’ll become part of an exceptional organization focusing on securing Apple’s 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 Apple's 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 broken. We 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.

Requirements

• Passionate about keeping Apple’s customers safe, with high ethical standards and integrity
• Familiarity with threat modelling and security architecture design
• Experience with using agentic coding tools to perform code reviews and software security testing
• Motivated by pursuing, and prioritizing, difficult and novel problems in a highly complex environment
• Effective communicator, able to influence and partner with engineering teams and decision makers to accomplish security goals
• Keeps up to date with new security research, technologies and methodologies
• Highly reciprocal and an excellent communicator
• Bachelors in Computer Science, or 3 years equivalent practical experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with engineering teams to build secure software
• Understands security engineering, software delivery, and SDLC
• Proficiency in OS internals and modern mitigation techniques
• Programming background, in C, C++, Objective-C, and/or Swift
• An understanding of past, current, and emerging security exploit trends, including attacks against agentic software features

Responsibilities

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior