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Senior Security Engineer, SEAR
Senior Security Engineer (Security Engineering & Architecture - SEAR)
Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) is at the core of Apple’s product security strategy and we’re fanatical about protecting our users. We're looking for an outstanding engineer to join our small, fast-paced team and help drive our strategy for continuous security policy enforcement and rapid regression detection at-scale.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will:
- Design and develop security automations supporting new security technologies
- Uphold effectiveness of existing security boundaries and mitigations
- Set technical direction, raise automation standards (deterministic & agentic)
- Mentor engineers across the team
- Cover opportunities for impact across the entire software development lifecycle
DESCRIPTION
You’ll join a team at the intersection of security research and software engineering, where your work directly impacts Apple’s ability to identify and address vulnerabilities swiftly. Our team delivers continuous security automation across all Apple operating systems and products, spanning the software development lifecycle through both traditional engineering and agentic tooling—to enforce security policy and detect regressions at scale.
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As a senior member of technical staff, you will:
- Generate data-driven insights
- Advocate for new or improved security interventions
- Rapidly prototype, scale, and promote adoption
- Uphold security invariants and policies to ensure high-confidence integrity in frontline mitigations and boundaries
- Collaborate with Apple’s teams (including security design reviewers, vulnerability researchers, and product engineers) to enhance security
This role may require travel to other Apple sites.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Drive and agency: Know how to learn new areas, experiment, and develop security insights. Curious, proactive, and take ownership to improve the environment.
- OS security fundamentals: Knowledge of contemporary mitigation techniques, attack vectors, and security architectures.
- Expert proficiency in one or more: Python, Swift, C/C++/Objective-C
- Agentic and AI fluency:
- Hands-on experience using agentic/LLM-based coding tools
- Ability to build and refine skills, agents, and AI workflows—not just operate them
- Independently verify, refute analysis or findings rather than accepting them at face value
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Proven experience building and integrating security-enforcing controls across the full software lifecycle
- Familiarity with Apple platform security architectures (iOS, macOS)
- Knowledge of observability tools and techniques
- Experience in building visualizations for complex technical information
- Enthusiasm for emerging technologies and growth-oriented mindset
- Demonstrated ability to architect solutions for ambiguous, cross-functional problems—from initial design through delivery—collaborating independently and closely with partner teams
- Understanding of vulnerability research concepts, offensive security tooling, or security analysis workflows (static, dynamic or binary)
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