Drimva

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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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)