Security Engineer, Apple Pay

Apple Inc

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Work type: On-site
Location: Austin, TX
Posted: 119 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Apple Inc. is a multinational technology company known for designing and manufacturing consumer electronics, software, and online services, including the iPhone, Mac, iPad, and App Store. Industry: Consumer Electronics & Software

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TL;DR · Security Engineer, Apple Pay

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The Security Engineer - Apple Pay joins the Apple Pay Security Engineering team to ensure the safety of Payments, Transit, Access, and Identity products across hardware, software, and server environments. This role involves performing hands-on security testing and pentesting to identify vulnerabilities while developing AI workflows, Skills, and Agents that integrate security best practices into every phase of the SDLC. Key responsibilities include threat model development, secure design assessment, and security code reviews. The candidate must demonstrate AI/agentic fluency to build and refine LLM-based coding tools rather than just consuming their output. Required technical skills include experience with cryptographic algorithms like PQC, AES, and SHA. The position focuses on breaking hardware and software to improve security testing sharpness and architectural integrity.

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Median $192000 from 115 postings across 44 companies.

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AI LLM CI-CD SDLC AES SHA PQC Security Code Review Secure Design

What you'll do

Develop AI workflows to perform security reviews and automated security testing.
Build Skills and Agents to integrate security best practices into every phase of the SDLC.
Perform threat modeling and secure design assessments for hardware and software.
Conduct hands-on security testing and penetration testing on hardware and software.
Validate and challenge AI-generated security findings to ensure accuracy.
Perform security code reviews to identify vulnerabilities in the software.
Propose new designs and architectural improvements to remediate discovered security issues.

What we're looking for

5+ years of experience in a security-focused role.
Experience threat modeling hardware and/or software designs to determine attack vectors and protections.
Experience performing hands-on security testing, including pentesting and negative testing.
Proficiency in performing security code reviews.
Hands-on experience building and refining Skills, Agents, and AI workflows using agentic/LLM-based coding tools.
Ability to independently verify or refute AI-generated findings rather than accepting them at face value.
Superior problem solving and debugging skills (preferred).
Understanding of various cryptographic algorithms such as PQC, AES, and SHA (preferred).

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