AI Security Engineer - Red Team

Apple’s Services Engineering Security Red Team is seeking an AI Security Engineer - Red Team to help scope and lead deep security reviews of critical, internet-scale AI deployments. The work centers on finding meaningful vulnerabilities and strengthening detection, testing frameworks, and security controls across AI agents and the platforms that support them.

This onsite role is based in Seattle, WA, with a base pay range of USD 175,000 - 308,500 per year. The position calls for substantial experience in security reviews and hands-on security testing, including exposure to AI deployments.

What You’ll Do

• Enumerate risks, plan security reviews, and execute those reviews to identify vulnerabilities and improvement opportunities
• Apply expertise to surface uncommon and obscure risks within AI deployments and AI platforms
• Assess complex business logic risks that require deep understanding of agents, MCPs, models, services, and their architectures
• Bring specialized methodologies for security testing of AI agents
• Identify security areas that are ready for improvement and establish appropriate security goals
• Stay current on new security technologies, vulnerabilities, and security testing methodologies
• Develop proof of concept systems to automate security recommendations, vulnerability discovery, and security workflows
• Use AI within workflows to expedite stages of the work while maintaining accountability for outcomes
• Detect security risks that may not be caught by agentic tools and processes, then help reinforce and improve those processes
• Scope and lead focused security reviews for critical internet-scale AI deployments, including agents, MCPs, their platform, and supporting infrastructure
• Learn services’ AI architecture and risk profile to build a scope that supports a meaningful security review
• Ensure the review scope targets the use and relevant risks of in-use AI models, while keeping the models themselves out of scope
• Identify security weaknesses, validate and design detection mechanisms, and provide actionable recommendations to strengthen Apple’s security posture
• Go beyond straightforward findings to identify obscure and complex risks within AI integrations and deployments
• Collaborate with AI platform teams, security engineering, InfoSec, privacy, SRE, detection, and design review teams
• Contribute improvement opportunities to AI tool and process engineering teams
• Continuously validate and improve security controls and detection capabilities, with repeatable testing frameworks and metrics-driven improvements

Minimum Qualifications

• 6+ years in an information security field or software engineering, including 2+ years conducting security reviews
• 1+ year reviewing AI deployments such as MCPs and Agents
• 2+ years of manually reviewing source code to assist in finding vulnerabilities
• Experience building or contributing to AI tools or AI security tools
• Ability to adapt quickly to prioritization shifts and investigate unfamiliar technologies
• Extensive infrastructure, cloud, and application security experience
• Experience communicating risk to engineering and leadership teams

Additional Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering (or related) with emphasis in security-related fields (or equivalent experience)
• Ability to reason about and influence software architecture for security
• Community contributions such as public CVEs, bug bounty recognition, open source tools, blogs, or talks

Pay & Benefits

• Base pay range: $175,000 - $308,500 per year
• Opportunity to become an Apple shareholder through participation in Apple’s discretionary employee stock programs
• Eligibility for discretionary restricted stock unit awards
• Ability to purchase Apple stock at a discount if voluntarily participating in the Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• Retirement benefits
• Range of discounted products and free services
• Reimbursement for certain educational expenses, including tuition for formal education related to advancing your career
• Role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses or commission payments and relocation (as applicable)
• Apple benefits, compensation, and stock programs are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms