Apple Security Engineer jobs
Platform-deep security work with offensive DNA, mostly on-site in Cupertino and Seattle.
The Product Security Engineer, SEAR role
Apple security engineers work inside SEAR and adjacent teams to secure silicon, firmware, OS kernels, frameworks, services and Apple Pay, with a strong offensive-research and low-level (C, C++, kernel, SoC) bias. Most reqs are on-site in Cupertino and Seattle, and recent postings explicitly ask for fluency with AI and agentic tooling. It is the most hardware- and platform-centric security org on this list, with very few remote seats.
Apple’s Security Engineering and Architecture (SEAR) organization is responsible for the security of all Apple products, with a dedicated Software Development Engineer – Security ladder (ICT2–ICT5) and named teams for Product Security, Red Team, Platform Architecture Security and offensive research; headcount is not published.
Apple security engineer salary
Base: the posted range on Product Security Engineer, SEAR (Seattle; leveled ICT2–ICT3; posted Sep 11, 2026), $122,700–$214,300, read on Oct 10, 2026. The ICT3–ICT4 Offensive Security Researcher (NYC) posts $150,400–$277,600 and ICT4–ICT5 reqs $175,000–$308,500 (Seattle) or $184,700–$324,800 (Cupertino, NYC, Sunnyvale). Total comp is not shown: levels.fyi’s Apple security samples are too thin for percentiles (ICT3 average total about $234k on five submissions).
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