AI Security Engineer - Red Team

Seattle, Washington, United States Software and Services

We are the Apple Services Engineering (ASE) Security Red Team. We focus on deep technical security review work of critical ASE services and infrastructure. These security reviews will be scoped and focused on review depth and quality. We are growing our team and looking an AI Security Engineer to lead deep reviews that identify meaningful security improvement opportunities. In this role, you will work closely with the security engineering, Info Sec, privacy, SRE, detection, and design review teams to keep Apple's services secure for our users.

You will identify security weaknesses, validate and design detection mechanisms, and provide actionable recommendations to enhance our security posture. You will go beyond simple to find risks and identify obscure and complex risks within complex services. You will collaborate with various architecture and engineering teams to continuously validate and improve our security controls and detection capabilities, with a strong focus on developing repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven security improvements.

If you love diving into complex and important systems, and driving the security of that system over time, we want to talk to you!

In this role, you will scope and lead focused security reviews on critical internet scale applications and supporting infrastructure. You will learn the services architecture and risk profile to build a scope that enables a meaningful security review. You will use AI to expedite all stages of your work, while maintaining accountability for all outcomes. You will use your depth of knowledge to identify risks that go undetected by agentic tools and processes to reinforce and improve those processes.

• Responsible for enumerating risks, planning reviews, and executing those reviews to identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities
• A technical expert in uncommon and obscure risks
• A technical expert in complex business logic risks that require a depth of understanding of the services and their architectures
• Ability to identify areas that are ripe for improvement and establish appropriate security goals
• Current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and methodologies
• Ability to develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and process workflows
• Ability to effectively use AI within your workflows
• Ability to identify areas of security risk that require additional focus and review after AI has performed initial reviews
• Ability to contribute improvement opportunities to AI tool and process engineering teams

• 6+ years in an information security field or software engineering; 2 or more of those years conducting security reviews
• 2+ years of manually reviewing source code to assist in finding vulnerabilities
• Experience building or contributing to AI security toolss
• Extensive infrastructure, cloud, and application security experience
• Experience communicating risk to engineering and leadership teams
• Experience going deep on complex systems for extended engagements

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related, with emphasis in security related fields (or equivalent experience)
• Experience constructing threat scenario narratives and building exploit chains
• Community contributions like public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, talks etc.

At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $139,500 and $258,100, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple’s Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You’ll also receive benefits…