Staff Security Engineer - AI-Driven Security Assurance

Team: Machine Learning and AI, Software and Services

Location: Seattle

Weekly Hours: 40

Posted: 2026-11-03

Summary: Apple Services Engineering (ASE), the team behind iCloud and Media services and the infrastructure that powers them, is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to partner with engineering teams to build AI-driven security assurance capabilities. You will collaborate with developers, site reliability engineers, and security teams to protect ASE services and design a secure foundation for services at Apple. Your work will include scaling assurance activities, including security risk assessments, threat modeling, and development of security standards. You will work with partner teams in security engineering, privacy, and offensive security to keep Apple's services secure for our users. If you love diving into complex technical systems, sharing security improvements, and making security better, we want to hear from you!

Description: In this role, you will combine deep expertise in security architecture, threat modeling, security design review, and spec-driven development (SDD) with hands-on experience building sophisticated AI-powered systems. You will design and develop intelligent security assurance capabilities that leverage large language models, autonomous agents, and build organization–specific security context to identify and prevent meaningful security risk across complex systems and architectures. You will also help define how security is incorporated into SDD practices, ensuring that security requirements, threat models, abuse cases, trust boundaries, controls, and verification criteria are established early and carried through the specification, implementation, testing, and development lifecycle. This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of security assurance and applied-AI. You will partner closely with software engineers, architects, and product teams working at the forefront of agent technology, to understand emerging capabilities, influence how agentic systems are designed and developed, and integrate security throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).Minimum Qualifications10 or more years of hands-on experience in security assurance, with demonstrated depth in security architecture, threat modeling, security design reviews, and security risk assessment. Experience evaluating AI system performance, including reliability, correctness, failure, modes, and effectiveness against defined objectives. Proficiency in Python or a comparable programming language, API integration, and production software development. Experience with LLM orchestration, agent tool use, retrieval systems, context engineering, and techniques for grounding AI outputs in trusted organizational data. Experience incorporating security into spec-driven development, requirements engineering, secure design practices, or comparable structured software development methodologies. Preferred

Pay & Benefits: At Apple, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. This provides the opportunity to progress as you grow and develop within a role. The base pay range for this role is between $205,400 and $374,300, and your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Apple employees also have the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple's discretionary employee stock programs. Apple employees are eligible for discretionary restricted stock unit awards, and can purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in Apple's Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You'll also receive benefits including: Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, retirement benefits, a range of discounted products and free services, and for formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, reimbursement for certain educational expenses — including tuition. Additionally, this role might be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments as well as relocation. Learn more about Apple Benefits

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EEO Statement: Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We seek to promote equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant AccessibilityAt Apple, we believe accessibility is a fundamental human right. You'll find that idea reflected in everything here — in our culture, our benefits and our digital tools. By welcoming as many perspectives as possible, we help you build a career where you feel like you belong. Learn about accessibility in Apple's workplace Learn about reasonable accommodations for job applicants Application Deadline Apple accepts applications to this posting on an ongoing basis.