Vulnerability Research Manager
Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture team (SEAR) focus on security needs. Passionate about safeguarding, we believe the best defense is a good offense. When it comes to securing more than a billion devices running the world's most sophisticated operating systems, that means finding vulnerabilities first.
Can you make a difference on this scale? Join our extraordinary team of security researchers and discover Apple products' vulnerabilities before they ship.
We are looking for a manager with experience in dealing with complex systems and bringing ideas to the level of products. Our organization focuses on securing low-level technologies such as the iOS and macOS kernel, boot ROMs, firmware and hardware. Working alongside a wide variety of teams and vendors, your influence will be felt throughout Apple's extraordinary products, such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Your team will be responsible for conducting security assessments in the areas of platform security, hardware/software boundary, wireless technologies, etc.
The typical activities of your team will include conducting vulnerability research, developing proof-of-concepts, reviewing designs and specifications of security features, creating innovative tools, consulting with other teams on both hardware and software: the scope is as diverse as it is essential. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and a passionate desire to secure systems by showing how they can be broken.
If this is you, we'd love to hear from you.
- Proven experience managing security teams.
- Extraordinary leadership and organizational skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
- Strong knowledge of embedded security.
- Knowledge of iOS and macOS security architecture.
- Knowledge of wireless security.