Secure Design Engineer, SEAR

Cupertino Posted 7/6/2026 Leaves the board in 2 days
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You will be a technical specialist responsible for securing new products that Apple ships to its customers, with a focus on software security.

Work cooperatively and build relationships with other parts of Apple on a broad range of technologies and initiatives to enhance security.

Design new and innovative ways of increasing security and privacy while preserving ease-of-use and ensuring the quality of the user experience.

Work with engineers to analyze systems, threat model new features, identify security vulnerabilities in implementation, and recommend security controls to ensure customer protection.

Evangelize and drive the adoption of these technologies across the organization.

Lead ground breaking security efforts at a scale only found at Apple.

Minimum Qualifications
Passionate about keeping Apple’s customers safe, with high ethical standards and integrity
Familiarity with threat modelling and security architecture design
Experience with using agentic coding tools to perform code reviews and software security testing
Motivated by pursuing, and prioritizing, difficult and novel problems in a highly complex environment
Effective communicator, able to influence and partner with engineering teams and decision makers to accomplish security goals
Keeps up to date with new security research, technologies and methodologies
Highly reciprocal and an excellent communicator
Bachelors in Computer Science, or 3 years equivalent practical experience

Preferred Qualifications
Experience working with engineering teams to build secure software
Understands security engineering, software delivery, and SDLC
Proficiency in OS internals and modern mitigation techniques
Programming background, in C, C++, Objective-C, and/or Swift
An understanding of past, current, and emerging security exploit trends, including attacks against agentic software features