Drimva

Apple

Senior Security Engineer

$175K–$278K

Austin, Texas +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 14, 2026

Location
Austin, Texas
Cupertino, California
Seattle, Washington
Experience
5+ years of equivalent hands-on experience as an alternative to the stated degree; no other years specified.
Education
BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Security, or 5+ years of equivalent hands-on experience.

About the job

Conduct security assessments of AI/ML applications and infrastructure, develop scalable assessment methods and tools, and help engineering teams build security into emerging technologies.

What you'll do

  • Assess AI applications, infrastructure, ML pipelines, and agentic systems for vulnerabilities and security risks.
  • Develop assessment methodologies, tooling, and automation, and help shift security earlier in the AI development lifecycle.
  • Define security requirements and controls, communicate findings, and promote security practices across engineering teams.

What they ask for

  • Experience assessing complex distributed systems, cloud-native applications, and large-scale infrastructure.
  • Experience developing security requirements, threat models, or risk assessments for emerging technologies.
  • Experience applying security best practices to AI/ML solutions and working knowledge of AI/ML concepts and common security risks.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills; BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Information Security, or 5+ years of equivalent hands-on experience.

Nice to have

  • Experience developing security tooling or automation leveraging LLMs.
  • Experience securing AI agents or emerging agentic protocols such as MCP (Model Context Protocol) or A2A.

Pay

$184,700 and $277,600 (base salary); $175,000 and $263,300 (base salary)

Tools

AI/ML, ML pipelines, vector databases, agentic systems, LLM-based applications, MCP (Model Context Protocol), A2A

AI focus

Assess AI/ML systems and their security risks; develop security requirements, controls, tooling, and automation, including potential LLM-enabled tooling.

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First seen Oct 15, 2026 · Last verified Nov 4, 2026 (UTC)