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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