Security Engineer
Job Description
Apple Pay Security Engineering is hiring a Security Engineer in Austin, TX (onsite) to strengthen Apple Pay security by testing aggressively and building better security capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Break down hardware, software, and services to uncover gaps others may miss
- Leverage AI to accelerate security testing and iteratively improve tooling
- Build Skills, Agents, and workflows that make security testing more effective
- Independently verify or refute findings instead of accepting results at face value
- Challenge AI outputs, prove them wrong, and use the results to improve the tooling rather than rubber-stamp conclusions
Requirements
- Ability to use tools to ramp into new domains, experiment, and develop stronger security issue discovery capabilities
- Curiosity and interest in learning new areas
- Sense of ownership and pride in improving the engineering environment
- Threat modeling experience for hardware and/or software designs, including identifying attacker paths and existing protections
- Hands-on security testing experience, including pentesting, negative testing, or equivalent
- Skilled at security code reviews
- Hands-on experience using agentic/LLM-based coding tools
- Ability to build and refine Skills, Agents, and AI workflows (not just operate them)
- Capability to independently verify or refute a finding rather than accept it at face value
- 5+ years of experience in a security-focused role
Technologies
- AI
- LLM-based coding tools
- Skills, Agents
- AI workflows
- Cryptographic algorithms (PQC, AES, SHA, etc.)
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong problem solving and debugging skills
- Understanding of cryptographic algorithms (PQC, AES, SHA, etc.)
- Clear cross-team communication, including the ability to explain issues to developers
- Experience proposing new designs and architectural improvements after identifying failures
- Experience shipping software or integrating security throughout the software development lifecycle
Location: Austin, TX (onsite)
Experience: 5+ years