Apple

Product Security Engineer

Apple$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong proficiency in Python, Swift, or C/C++ for security automation systems.
  • Familiarity with AI capabilities applied to security.
  • Experience with containerization and CI/CD in production deployment.
  • Proven ability to systematically analyze and investigate security issues.
  • Understanding of security principles and common attack vectors.
  • Excellent communication skills for team collaboration.

Responsibilities

  • Investigate and respond to critical security issues as they arise.
  • Reverse engineer exploits and analyze vulnerabilities.
  • Develop innovative tools to identify security bugs.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams on software security issues.
  • Implement security measures to safeguard Apple products.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with top security engineers in the industry.
  • Direct impact on the security of Apple's ecosystem.
  • Engage with diverse teams and vendors throughout Apple.
  • Access to a culture focused on innovation and security.
  • Contribute to the safety of millions of active Apple users.
Full Job 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 (Python, Swift, or C/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

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.

Apple Careers

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Learn more about Apple
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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