SWE - User Land Security Researcher, SEAR (Early Career)

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Description
You are joining an exceptional team focusing on securing our remote attack surfaces across Apple platforms. From iMessage to media formats and FaceTime to memory allocators, you will be working alongside a wide variety of teams and vendors and your influence will be felt throughout Apple's extraordinary products, including: iPhone, Apple Vision Pro, Mac and Apple TV. In addition, you will be responsible for 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 reviewing code and proposing designs for new security mitigations which will ship on billions of devices. This position requires someone with strong technical strengths and a passionate desire to secure systems.

Your responsibilities will include helping to make Apple's products the industry's most secure, evaluating security-critical code, developing intelligent automated tools for vulnerability finding, building exploits for discovered vulnerabilities to challenge existing mitigation techniques, providing security focused consultations on key technology areas to partner teams and driving the design and development of new mitigations.

This position may require some travel to other Apple sites, vendors, and security conferences.

Preferred Qualifications
Knowledge of modern anti-exploitation mitigations and their effectiveness.
Reverse engineering using tools such as IDA Pro or Ghidra
Knowledge of macOS and iOS security architectures.
Knowledge of memory safe languages.
Proficiency with assembly languages, ARM64 is a big plus.

Minimum Qualifications
Background in secure coding and code auditing.
Experience developing proof of concept exploits for common vulnerabilities.
Programming background in C, C++, and Python

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