Software Security Researcher - Browser & Userland

Software Security Researcher - Browser & Userland London, England

Apple
Full Time London, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

Summary

Posted: Jun 2, 2023
Weekly Hours: 35
Role Number:200481604
Home Office: Yes
Apple Security Engineering & Architecture (SEAR) believes the best defense is a good offense. When it comes to securing the world's most advanced operating systems this means finding vulnerabilities first. We're looking for skilled and inspired individuals to join our group of security researchers to attack Apple's products with the goal of better safeguarding our users!

Key Qualifications

  • Background in secure coding and code auditing.
  • Experience developing proof of concept exploits for common vulnerabilities.
  • Knowledge of how to bypass modern anti-exploitation mitigations.
  • Reverse engineering using tools such as IDA Pro or Ghidra and experience automating this analysis.
  • Proficiency with assembly languages, ARM64 is a big plus.
  • Programming background in C, C++, and Python
  • Knowledge of macOS and iOS security architectures.
  • Programming background in Objective-C and Swift.

Description

You are joining an outstanding team focusing on securing 0-click and 1-click threat vectors in across Apple platforms. Working alongside a wide variety of teams and vendors and your influence will be felt throughout Apple's extraordinary products, such as the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. In addition, this role will include identifying threats in advance and directly involved in Apple's response to critical issues as they arise. The job is as diverse as it is essential, from reverse engineering an exploit, providing insightful analysis and creating innovative tools, consulting with other teams on both hardware and software, to auditing code and reviewing designs. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and a passionate desire to secure systems by showing how they can be broken. Your responsibilities will include helping to make Apple's products the industry's most secure, evaluating security-critical code and hardware, developing intelligent automated tools for vulnerability finding, developing exploits for discovered vulnerabilities to challenge existing mitigation techniques, providing security design consulting to other teams and getting involved in developing and building mitigations.

Education & Experience

Additional Requirements

  • This position may require some travel to other Apple sites, vendors, and security conferences.
  • Apple’s most important resource, our soul, is our people. Apple benefits help further the well-being of our employees and their families in meaningful ways. No matter where you work at Apple, you can take advantage of our health and wellness resources and time-away programmes. We’re proud to provide stock grants to employees at all levels of the company, and we also give employees the option to buy Apple stock at a discount — both offer everyone at Apple the chance to share in the company’s success. You’ll discover many more benefits of working at Apple, such as programmes that match your charitable contributions, reimburse you for continuing your education and give you special employee pricing on Apple products. Apple benefits programmes vary by country and are subject to eligibility requirements. Apple is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Apple is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.

Software Security Researcher - Browser & Userland
Apple

www.apple.com
Cupertino, United States
Tim Cook
$10+ billion (USD)
10000+ Employees
Company - Public
Computer Hardware Development
1976
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