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Staff Security Engineer - AI-Driven Security Assurance

Seattle, United States of AmericaFull-time2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design and develop AI-powered security assurance systems that automate and augment security design reviews, threat modeling, and architectural risk assessments for Apple's services.

Role type

Staff Security Engineer (AI/ML)

Builds

Intelligent security assurance capabilities leveraging LLMs and autonomous agents

Domain

Cloud services security + Applied AI/LLM

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Security architecture, Threat modeling, Spec-driven development (SDD), LLM orchestration, Agent tool use, Retrieval systems, Context engineering, Python, API integration, Production software development

Preferred skills

Generative AI for security assurance, Enterprise knowledge systems (RAG, knowledge graphs), Integrating AI agents with engineering tools, Traceability between specs and security requirements

Technologies

LLMs, Autonomous agents, RAG, Knowledge graphs, Python

Responsibilities

Architect and deploy AI-powered security assurance systems; Define security practices for spec-driven development; Integrate security analysis into the SDD lifecycle; Build agentic workflows for analyzing system architectures; Implement context-management approaches (RAG, persistent memory); Apply evaluation frameworks for AI-generated assessments; Integrate AI capabilities into engineering workflows; Partner with teams to translate security requirements into automated capabilities

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC