Apple
Sr Automation & Intelligence Tools Engineer, SEAR
$216K–$325K
Cupertino, California · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 13, 2026
About the job
Build automation, verification infrastructure, and AI-assisted workflows to help Apple’s security teams validate security-critical code across its operating systems.
What you'll do
- Design and build automation harnesses, infrastructure, and verification workflows.
- Decide where automation is useful and establish how to verify security-critical code without degrading customer experience.
- Assess where AI agents can accelerate development and where manual testing and human oversight are needed.
What they ask for
- Strong programming skills in Swift, Objective-C, or Python, with experience building tools, frameworks, or infrastructure used by other engineers.
- Experience designing and deploying automated verification at scale, including harnesses and CI systems.
- Fluency with AI-assisted development using LLMs, coding agents, or tools you built, and ability to explain their impact.
- Experience owning an ambiguous cross-team technical problem through delivery, and communicating trade-offs effectively.
Nice to have
- Experience building agentic or LLM-backed developer tooling, such as evals, harnesses, MCP servers, or code-generation pipelines.
- Familiarity with XCTest, Xcode, large shared codebases, or security, systems-level, or platform software.
Pay
$216,200 and $324,800 (USD, base salary)
Tools
Swift, Objective-C, Python, LLMs, XCTest, Xcode, MCP servers
AI focus
Build and assess AI-assisted security development workflows and developer tooling, including agents; determine where AI accelerates work and where testing and human oversight remain necessary.
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