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Security Platform Automation Engineer

Apple· Security (Assurance Automation & Risk Management) / Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$175k - $308.5kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Automation engineer to build AI-assisted security automation platform and scalable review pipeline across Apple’s services. Focus on agentic workflows, integration with existing security tooling, and delivering high-throughput, quality-driven security reviews for software supply chain, security posture, and risk management.

Responsibilities

  • Design system and interfaces that make Apple's existing security systems agent-consumable
  • Build and maintain the review automation pipeline that ingests a service, runs AI-assisted threat modeling and triage, and produces structured, reviewable output at scale
  • Implement the AI skills and routing criteria defined by our security standards engineers, meeting quality targets for precision, recall, and false positives
  • Integrate the pipeline with existing security engineering tooling (findings, vulnerability intelligence, SBOM, scanning, and risk-acceptance systems) rather than standing up parallel foundations
  • Build the quality feedback loop so signals from reviewer validation continuously improve the automation
  • Be accountable for quality software that meets service level objectives, with runbooks, tests, and observability so no system depends on a single person
  • Own prompt, skill, and model versioning as code, with the eval gates
  • Research, prototype, and present ideas and designs to your team, management, and internal customers

Qualifications

  • 1 year of building LLM- or agent-based systems that ran in production, with a measured quality bar
  • 8+ years building and operating production automation, data pipelines, or backend services
  • Highly proficient in at least one of Python, Go, or Java
  • Experience integrating third-party and first-party APIs, tooling, and services into reliable end-to-end workflows and AI agent workflows
  • Working knowledge of application and cloud security concepts (threat modeling, vulnerabilities, secure configuration)
  • MS or BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field OR equivalent practical experience in Software or Security Engineering
  • Experience with Agent engineering: retrieval, grounding, citation, reasoning
  • Experience with Agentic workflow design with bounded autonomy, building LLM- or agent-based automation and evaluating output quality (precision/recall, human-in-the-loop feedback loops), AI agent evaluation harness as CI
  • Familiar with AWS cloud resources (S3, EC2, Lambda, Step Functions, etc.)
  • Experience with security tooling such as SAST/SCA scanners, SBOM tooling, or vulnerability intelligence platforms
  • Background in security review, threat modeling, or supply-chain security
  • Experience delivering tooling used by non-engineer reviewers or contractors at scale
  • Awareness of AI-specific threats in systems that ingest untrusted input

Skills

Required:PythonLLM / agent-based systemsThreat modeling
Nice to have:GoJavaSecurity tooling

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • educational expense reimbursement (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission potential and relocation may be available
  • stock programs including RSUs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Oct 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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