Product Security Engineer, SEAR
Apple Seattle, Washington, United States
Computers and Electronics Manufacturing · 10,001+ employees
About the role
You will investigate security issues across Apple products and collaborate with engineering teams to safeguard users. The role involves reverse engineering exploits, creating security tools, and responding to critical vulnerabilities.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have strong proficiency in C, C++, or Objective C and experience with security automation and CI/CD pipelines. A deep understanding of vulnerability classes, exploit techniques, and systematic security analysis is required.
Full description
You'll be a part of the Apple Product Security Team at the forefront of Apple's security impacting the breadth of Apple's ecosystem by working on immediate risks to Apple's customers. Working with some of the best security engineers in the world, you’ll have a direct positive impact on the security of Apple’s products. We're looking for a hardworking and highly motivated engineers responsible to help investigate security issues across Apple products with the goal of better safeguarding our users. You’ll become part of an outstanding team focusing on securing iOS, tvOS, watchOS and macOS. Rooted in the Security Engineering and Architecture organization, you’ll be working with a wide variety of teams and vendors. Your influence will be felt throughout Apple's extraordinary products, such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and Apple TV.
Description
You will be directly involved in Apple's response to critical issues as they arise. From reverse engineering an exploit, providing insightful analysis on vulnerabilities, creating innovative tools to help find security bugs, and collaborating with engineering teams on software issues, the job is as diverse as it is critical. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and an enthusiastic drive to secure systems by showing how they can be broken.
Minimum Qualifications
Strong proficiency in one or more programming languages (C, C++, Objective C) for building robust security automation systems Familiarity with common AI capabilities, such as function calling, and their application to security use cases Experience with production deployment using containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools Proven ability to analyze and investigate security issues through systematic approaches and tooling Understanding of security principles including vulnerability classes, exploit techniques, and common attack vectors Excellent communication skills for collaborating across diverse technical teams and stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications
Experience developing or leveraging security tools such as fuzzers, static/dynamic analyzers, or vulnerability management platforms Field experience in vulnerability research, incident response, or security operations Track record of shipping tools to large user bases in enterprise environments
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