Security Manager, SEAR

Apple•Cupertino, CA

About The Position

Apple’s Security Engineering & Architecture team (SEAR) is seeking a manager to lead several teams building capabilities and tooling for offensive and defensive security projects. The role will shape the end-to-end security evaluation pipeline and guide its evolution toward an AI-native approach, incorporating advanced AI capabilities from vulnerability discovery through validation. The organization includes software, security, and AI engineers. The manager will partner closely with Apple security researchers, understand and anticipate their workflows and needs, and turn feedback and ideas into reliable, widely adopted products that increase researchers’ impact. The role sets technical direction, grows and mentors teams, and works with teams and vendors across Apple. The resulting tools support security assessments across platform security, hardware/software boundaries, wireless technologies, and other areas, affecting products including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Teams create offensive and defensive security tools, build and scale fuzzing infrastructure and techniques, develop AI-driven vulnerability discovery and analysis systems, operate research tooling as production services, and consult with researchers and other teams on hardware and software assessments, proofs of concept, and design and specification reviews.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience managing software development and/or tooling teams.
Extraordinary leadership and organizational skills.
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Knowledge of iOS and macOS security architecture.
Familiarity with applied machine learning and LLM-based agent systems and their evaluation.
Familiarity with DevOps practices, including CI/CD, containerization/Kubernetes, and observability, for scaling internal tooling.
Strong technical skills.
Customer-focused mindset toward researchers.
Passionate desire to secure systems by enabling the people who show how they can be broken.

Responsibilities

Lead several teams developing capabilities and tooling for offensive and defensive security projects.
Shape the end-to-end security evaluation pipeline and drive its evolution toward an AI-native approach.
Partner with security researchers to understand their workflows, anticipate needs, and translate feedback and ideas into reliable products.
Set technical direction, grow and mentor multidisciplinary teams, and ensure their tools are adopted and used across Apple.
Work with a wide variety of teams and vendors across Apple.
Build innovative offensive and defensive security tools.
Build and scale fuzzing infrastructure and techniques.
Develop AI-driven vulnerability discovery and analysis systems.
Operate research tooling as production services.
Consult with researchers and other teams on hardware and software tooling for proofs of concept, design and specification reviews, and assessments.