AI Security Engineer - Red Team

Apple’s Services Engineering Security Red Team is hiring an AI Security Engineer to scope and lead deep security reviews for critical, internet-scale AI deployments. The role emphasizes finding meaningful vulnerabilities and strengthening detection, testing frameworks, and security controls for AI agents and supporting infrastructure.

This position is based in Seattle, WA and is onsite. The base pay range is $175,000 to $308,500 per year.

What you will do

• Enumerate risks, plan security reviews, and execute reviews to surface vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities
• Apply expertise to identify uncommon and obscure risks in AI deployments and AI platforms
• Evaluate complex business logic risks by understanding agents, MCPs, models, services, and their architectures
• Use security testing methodologies tailored to AI Agents
• Identify security gaps that warrant expanded focus after initial AI reviews
• Develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows
• Use AI to expedite stages of work while maintaining accountability for outcomes
• Identify risks that may go undetected by agentic tools and processes, then reinforce and improve those processes
• Scope and lead focused security reviews covering agents, MCPs, their platform, and supporting infrastructure
• Learn service AI architecture and risk profiles to define review scope for meaningful security evaluation, keeping in-use AI model risks in scope while maintaining the model itself as out of scope
• Validate and design detection mechanisms, then deliver actionable recommendations to enhance Apple’s security posture
• Collaborate with AI platform teams, security engineering, InfoSec, privacy, SRE, detection, and design review teams
• Continuously validate and improve security controls and detection capabilities with a focus on repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven improvements
• Contribute improvement opportunities to AI tool and process engineering teams

Qualifications

• 6+ years in an information security field or software engineering, with 2+ years conducting security reviews
• 1+ year reviewing AI deployments such as MCPs and Agents
• 2+ years manually reviewing source code to assist in finding vulnerabilities
• Experience building or contributing to AI tools or AI security tools
• Ability to adapt quickly to prioritization shifts and investigate unfamiliar technologies
• Extensive infrastructure, cloud, and application security experience
• Experience communicating risk to engineering and leadership teams
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related field with emphasis in security related fields, or equivalent experience
• Ability to reason about and influence software architecture for security
• Community contributions such as public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, or talks

Pay & Benefits

• Base pay range: $175,000 to $308,500 (determined based on skills, qualifications, experience, and location)
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Option to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition, for formal education related to advancing your career
• Additionally, the role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation
• Note: Apple benefit, compensation, and employee stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms of the applicable plan or program