Apple
Security Manager, SEAR
$206K–$356K
Cupertino, California · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 22, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years managing software development and/or tooling teams.
About the job
Lead multidisciplinary teams building and operating security evaluation tools and an AI-native pipeline to help Apple researchers discover, analyze, and address vulnerabilities.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and grow, mentor, and lead software, security, and AI engineering teams.
- Develop and scale offensive and defensive security tools, fuzzing infrastructure, and AI-driven vulnerability discovery and analysis systems.
- Partner with security researchers and other teams to understand workflows, deliver adopted tooling, and support security assessments.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of experience managing software development and/or tooling teams.
- Extraordinary leadership and organizational skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of iOS and macOS security architecture.
- Familiarity with applied ML and LLM-based agent systems and their evaluation; DevOps practices (CI/CD, containerization/Kubernetes, observability).
Pay
$206,200 to $356,400 USD base salary
Tools
iOS, macOS, CI/CD, Kubernetes
AI focus
Lead development of an AI-native security evaluation pipeline, including AI-driven vulnerability discovery and analysis systems and the integration and evaluation of applied ML and LLM-based agent systems.
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