Senior Security Engineer
Apple· Corporate Functions
Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$175k - $263.3kFull-timePosted 6mo ago
About the role
Senior Security Engineer focused on shaping the security posture of Apple’s applications and infrastructure with emphasis on AI/ML systems and emerging technologies. Responsible for security assessments, threat modeling, and defining security requirements across the technology ecosystem, while driving secure development practices and proactive risk management.
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 assessments of distributed systems and cloud-native applicationsThreat modeling and security requirement developmentAI/ML security knowledge
Benefits
- - Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
- - Retirement benefits
- - Discounted products and free services
- - Reimbursement for certain educational expenses (tuition)
- - Discretionary bonuses or commission payments (potentially)
- - Relocation assistance
- - Apple shareholder opportunities through stock programs
- - Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Last updated Jul 3, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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