Apple

Firmware Security Researcher, SEAR

Apple$130K — $180K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Familiarity with firmware and embedded systems
  • Experience in secure programming and code auditing
  • Knowledge of modern anti-exploitation techniques
  • Background in systems programming with C, C++, or similar languages
  • Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate security-critical aspects of products, from architecture to code review
  • Provide consultations to partner teams on new features and technologies
  • Develop automated tools for security analysis and verification
  • Identify threats and drive the development of mitigation strategies
  • Challenge existing security mitigations through evaluation and exploitation proofs
  • Reverse engineer exploits when necessary

Benefits

  • Some travel to different Apple sites and vendors may be required
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge security technologies
  • Engagement in collaborative projects with partner engineering teams
  • Potential to drive innovation in security practices using AI
Full Job Description
Description

The role of a Firmware Security Researcher is as diverse as it is essential, you will lead research and analysis in identifying vulnerabilities and trends across our platforms, invent new defensive technologies to eliminate entire classes of issues, and drive the delivery of security mitigations in collaboration with our partner engineering teams.

A typical day in the role may include:

* Evaluating security-critical aspects of our products, from system architecture to code review, from product features definition to circuit layout

* Providing security focused consultations to partner teams on new features and technologies

* Developing intelligent automated tools for security analysis, verification, and regression defence

* Identifying threats and driving the development of mitigations to prevent them

* Challenging existing mitigation techniques through evaluation and proof of concept exploitation

* reverse engineering exploits, if necessary

This position may require some travel to other Apple sites and vendors.

Minimum Qualifications

Familiarity with firmware and embedded system technologies

Experience with secure programming and code auditing

Knowledge of modern anti-exploitation mitigations and their effectiveness

Background in firmware or systems programming, ideally in C, C++, or another systems programming language

Excellent communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

Ideas and enthusiasm for using AI to fundamentally change the field of security engineering

Proficiency with threat modelling complex systems

Background in software exploitation

Familiarity with operating system internals, especially macOS, iOS, or other flavours of UNIX

Experience with memory safe programming languages and/or techniques

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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154,000 employees
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Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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