Platform Engineer - Security (Platform Architecture)

Job summary

The Platform Architecture group at Apple is seeking a Platform Engineer - Security to define, design, and connect the ecosystem across hardware, software, and services. This role involves identifying and defining platform-level security requirements for new products, maintaining device-level security policies, and driving the adoption of platform-level security architectures incorporating hardware, software, and server elements. The engineer will collaborate with cross-functional partners to enhance the security of Apple’s product line.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years relevant industry experience
• Experience in threat modeling of security features and architecture, spanning software, hardware, and system designs
• Experience in effectively communicating highly technical details to a non-technical audience
• Experience with user identification and authentication technologies, such as biometrics and smart cards
• Experience with Operating System concepts, such as isolation and privilege levels
• Experience with platform security concepts, such as virtualization and confidential computing
• Experience with defining and evaluating platform security features spanning client/server and deployed across infrastructure in factories, organizations, or the internet
• Basic experience with programming and/or auditing with Python, C, and Unix shell scripting
• Experience with utilizing AI to facilitate research, design, and evaluation activities
• Experience working with basic cryptographic principles, such as symmetric vs asymmetric crypto, encryption vs authentication, post-quantum algorithms, or public key infrastructure implementations
• Experience with platform security primitives, such as Secure Boot, Secure Update, Secure Communication across entities, and Secure lifecycle management
• Experience in leading cross-functional initiatives to define, drive, and productize security features

Responsibilities

• Develop threat models and associated security architectures for new Apple products and technologies
• Derive system security requirements
• Design balanced and novel mitigations in collaboration with product and engineering teams
• Develop detailed system-level specifications to guide product development, integration, and quality assurance teams
• Champion adoption of industry-leading security technologies across multiple product categories
• Identify emerging threats, new attacks, and mitigation techniques
• Drive architecture evolution to stay ahead of industry changes

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Relocation