Apple
Offensive Security Researcher, SEAR
$185K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Full-time · Posted Apr 24, 2026
- Experience
- No number of years stated; proven experience in security research, vulnerability discovery, or offensive security is required.
About the job
Conduct offensive security research to identify and exploit vulnerabilities in AI-powered features and agentic systems across Apple platforms.
What you'll do
- Research AI-specific attack classes, including prompt injection, data exfiltration, lateral movement, and persistence in AI workflows.
- Build offensive capabilities against autonomous systems and anticipate real-world adversarial exploitation.
- Apply AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
What they ask for
- Solid grounding in common vulnerability classes, including memory corruption, logic flaws, and auth bypass.
- Proven experience in security research, vulnerability discovery, or offensive security.
- Strong understanding of modern AI/LLM systems and their failure modes.
- Experience using AI/ML tools such as LLMs or agents to automate or augment security research workflows.
Nice to have
- Experience attacking or defending agentic systems; familiarity with prompt injection, obfuscation, or model manipulation.
- Experience with AI-driven vulnerability discovery pipelines, reverse engineering, low-level systems, Apple platforms, or listed programming languages.
Pay
$184,700 and $324,800 (base salary range)
Tools
LLMs, agents, MCP-style integrations, IDA, Ghidra, LLDB, Python, C/C++
AI focus
Offensive security research targeting AI-powered features and agentic systems, including prompt injection, agentic data exfiltration, lateral movement, persistence, and AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
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