Product Security Engineer, SEAR

Secure Apple’s products across the ecosystem. In this onsite role in Seattle, WA, you’ll work with Apple’s Product Security Team investigating and responding to security issues affecting iOS, tvOS, watchOS, and macOS. The work combines vulnerability analysis, reverse engineering, and building security automation tooling, with direct collaboration across engineering teams.

What you’ll do

• Take an active role in Apple’s response to critical security issues as they arise.
• Use reverse engineering to inform vulnerability understanding, and provide analysis that supports effective remediation.
• Develop innovative tools that help identify security bugs and improve investigation workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on software issues, translating security findings into actionable technical work.

Required skills

• Strong programming proficiency in one or more languages: C, C++, Objective-C, with the ability to build reliable security automation systems.
• Familiarity with AI capabilities such as function calling, including how they can be applied to security use cases.
• Experience with production deployment using containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools.
• Proven ability to analyze and investigate security issues using systematic approaches and tooling.
• Understanding of security fundamentals, including vulnerability classes, exploit techniques, and common attack vectors.
• Excellent communication skills for collaboration with diverse technical teams and stakeholders.

Helpful experience

• 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.
• A track record of shipping tools to large user bases in enterprise environments.

Compensation and benefits

Salary range: USD 122,700 - 214,300 per year.

• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Discounted products and free services
• Educational expense reimbursement, including tuition
• Discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Option to purchase Apple stock at a discount through the Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Technologies you may work with

• C, C++, Objective-C
• Function calling
• Containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools