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About Apple Inc
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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As a Systems & Kernel Software Engineer, you will join the SPEAR team within the Security Engineering & Architecture organization to improve the security of end user devices. You will collaborate with various teams across lower layers of the software stack to design and implement defenses for bootloaders, drivers, firmware, and the kernel. Your daily work involves designing hardening approaches, performing large-scale refactors into memory safe languages, and writing production-quality low-level code in C, C++, Rust, Zig, or Swift. You will balance security goals against performance, memory footprint, and reliability while utilizing modern tools like LLMs to accelerate development. The role focuses on eliminating software vulnerabilities and protecting systems against advanced adversaries by addressing critical challenges in the lower layers of the stack through surgical mitigations and comprehensive codebase rearchitectures.
Cryptography
C
C++
Objective-C
Swift
Operating Systems
Systems Programming
Security Engineering
Access Control
Kernel
Secure Enclave
Software Assurance
Key Management
Content Encryption
Boot Security