Apple
Product Security Engineer, SEAR
$123K–$214K
Seattle, Washington · Full-time · Posted Sep 11, 2026
About the job
Investigates security issues across Apple products and develops tools and AI frameworks to improve security operations and protect users.
What you'll do
- Assess vulnerabilities, reverse engineer exploits, and analyze security issues across Apple platforms.
- Develop and contribute to security tools for submission, triage, and routing workflows.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and vendors on software security issues and response to critical incidents.
What they ask for
- Strong proficiency in one or more of C, C++, or Objective C.
- Familiarity with AI capabilities such as function calling and their security applications.
- Experience with production deployment using containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools.
- Ability to investigate security issues systematically; understanding of vulnerability classes, exploit techniques, and common attack vectors.
Nice to have
- Experience with security tools such as fuzzers, static/dynamic analyzers, or vulnerability management platforms.
- Field experience in vulnerability research, incident response, or security operations; or a track record of shipping tools to large enterprise user bases.
Pay
$122,700 and $214,300 (base salary)
Tools
C, C++, Objective C, iOS, tvOS, watchOS, macOS
AI focus
Contribute to AI frameworks that power security engineering operations across Apple; apply capabilities such as function calling to security use cases.
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