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Senior Security Engineer

Apple· Corporate Functions
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Cupertino, California, Austin, Texas, Seattle, Washington$184.7k - $277.6kFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

Experienced Security Engineer focused on AI/ML systems and emerging technologies, driving security assessments, threat modeling, and security requirements across Apple’s applications and infrastructure. Partners with engineering teams to shift security left and foster proactive risk management in a fast-moving technology environment.

Responsibilities

  • Research and identify emerging technologies, threats, and vulnerabilities to proactively define security requirements and controls before they reach production.
  • Conduct hands-on security assessments of AI applications and infrastructure, including ML pipelines and agentic systems, identifying vulnerabilities and security risks across the full AI/ML stack.
  • Develop techniques, tooling, and automation to support and scale security assessments of AI applications and infrastructure.
  • Partner with engineering teams to develop tools and procedures that shift security left in the AI application development lifecycle, enabling teams to identify and remediate risks earlier.
  • Evangelize assessment tools, security processes, and proven solutions across engineering teams, driving consistent adoption of security best practices for AI across the organization.

Qualifications

  • Experience conducting security assessments of complex distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and large-scale infrastructure.
  • Experience developing security requirements, threat models, or risk assessments for new and emerging technologies.
  • Experience applying industry leading security best practices to AI/ML solutions.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts including model training pipelines, inference services, vector databases, agentic systems, and LLM-based applications.
  • Understanding of common AI/ML security risks including prompt injection, insecure tool use, data leakage, and supply chain vulnerabilities.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey security risk to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Security, or 5+ years of equivalent hands-on experience.
  • Experience defining and implementing security requirements and controls for AI infrastructure, tooling, applications, and services.
  • Experience developing security tooling or automation leveraging LLMs.
  • Experience securing AI agents and emerging agentic protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) or A2A.
  • Experience with ML platforms and tooling
  • Proven track record securing enterprise platforms, cloud-based solutions, or privacy-focused systems.

Skills

Required:Security assessmentsThreat modelingAI/ML securityCommunication
Nice to have:Security tooling / automationSecurity in AI infrastructureAgentic protocols / AI agentsML platforms

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potential)
  • relocation assistance (potential)
  • Apple Employee Stock Purchase Plan (optional participation)
  • discretionary employee stock programs (RSUs)
Last updated Aug 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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