Secure Systems Architect, Platform Architecture
Cupertino, California, United States
Hardware
As part of Platform Architecture, the Secure Technologies group is responsible for the foundations that support Apple’s mission of privacy and security. We are looking for people who are passionate about this space, mindful of customer experience and operations at scale, and sport a can-do attitude along with engineering abilities to help move things forward from design through prototyping to implementation.
Key Qualifications
- Comfortable shifting between big-picture and focused discussions, generalizing overall themes from individual use cases and vice versa.
- Understanding of security principles and concepts including root of trust, chain of trust, key management, trust establishment, key exchange, and related topics.
- Working knowledge of cryptography, including asymmetric and symmetric algorithms, signing, encryption, authentication, and post-quantum considerations.
- Attention to detail, critical thinking, willingness to accept and challenge ideas. Ability to balance security, simplicity, and scalability to come up with robust and sustainable solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and a passion for introducing clarity to conversations.
- Software engineering experience in at least two of the following: C, Python, or Go.
Description
This role spans three vectors of work: Designing and prototyping new security technologies, participating in cross-functional forums to advise and anticipate upcoming needs and requirements, and modernizing the surrounding ecosystem where necessary. The mixture will vary over time and depend on your interests, strengths, and organization needs.
We are responsible for core technologies like secure boot, attestation, and similar silicon foundations that support many of Apple’s security and privacy features. Our focus is on seamless, simple, and scalable security that is easy to reason about, audit, and prove. With these principles in mind, your role will be to apply and grow your skills in support of Apple’s mission to deliver the best customer experience combined with the highest standards for security and privacy. You will solve challenges that enable and improve security guarantees and have direct impact on customers, engineers, manufacturing, legal, and finance.
Due to the cross-functional nature and breadth of this role, and the artistic freedom given to the team, this role represents a great growth opportunity for individuals passionate about privacy and security.
Education & Experience
Bachelor's and a minimum of 20 years relevant industry experience.