Apple

Platform Engineer - Security (Platform Architecture)

Apple$120K — $160K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BS degree or equivalent relevant experience
  • 10+ years in security architecture or related role
  • Working knowledge of cryptographic principles
  • Hands-on experience with platform security mechanisms
  • Strong experience in threat modeling across various domains
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Familiarity with programming and scripting languages like Python and C

Responsibilities

  • Identify and define security requirements for new products
  • Maintain device-level security policies across multiple environments
  • Drive adoption of security architectures with cross-functional partners
  • Lead cross-functional teams through the product development cycle
  • Collaborate with various teams to design security solutions
  • Elevate the overall security profile of devices and SOCs
  • Develop and productize security features based on threat modeling

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunities for cross-functional training and development
  • Access to cutting-edge technology and security practices
  • Exposure to high-visibility projects with global impact
  • Chance to contribute to the security of millions of users' devices
Full Job Description
In this role, you will identify and define platform level security requirements for new products, define and maintain device-level security policies across multiple environments for existing products, and drive adoption of platform level security architectures incorporating hardware, software, and server elements, through our cross-function partners. Together with the rest of the Platform Architecture team, your work will ensure millions of customers all around the world can confidently trust the devices they use every single day.

As a member of Platform Architecture, you will lead cross-functional teams throughout the product development cycle. Further, as part of this high-visibility team, you will frequently collaborate with other security architects and researchers across Apple including software, hardware, silicon, server, and product groups to identify, define and design security solutions that elevate overall security profile of our SOCs, devices, and factories.

BS degree or relevant industry experience. Experience working with basic cryptographic principles. (e.g., symmetric vs asymmetric crypto, encryption vs authentication, post-quantum algorithms, or public key infrastructure implementations) Experience with platform security primitives. (e.g. Secure Boot, Secure Update, Secure Communication across entities, Secure lifecycle management etc.) Experience in threat modeling of security features and architecture. (preferably spanning across software, hardware and system designs Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives to define, drive and productize security features.

Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience. Experience in threat modeling of security features and architecture, specifically spanning across software, hardware and system designs. Experience in effectively communicating highly technical details to a non-technical audience. Experience with user identification and authentication technologies, such as biometrics, smart cards etc. Experience with Operating System concepts, such as isolation, privilege levels etc. and platform security concepts, such as virtualization and confidential computing. Experience with defining / evaluation of platform security features spanning across client/server and deployed across infrastructure in factories, or organization, or internet. Basic experience with programming and/or auditing experience with Python, C, and unix shell scripting, and with utilizing AI to facilitate research, design and evaluation activities.

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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Size
154,000 employees
Market Cap
$2,074.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$63.9 billion
Founded
1976
5 Year Trend
+11.5%
Revenue
$294.1 billion
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