Description

Description

As a member of Platform Architecture, you will lead cross-functional teams throughout the product development cycle. Further, as part of this high-visibility team, you will frequently collaborate with other security architects and researchers across Apple including software, hardware, silicon, server, and product groups to identify, define and design security solutions that elevate overall security profile of our SOCs, devices, and factories.

Responsibilities

• Develop threat models and associated security architectures for exciting new Apple products and technologies, derive system security requirements, and design balanced and novel mitigations in creative collaboration with iconic product and engineering teams.
• Develop detailed system-level specifications to guide product development, integration, and quality assurance teams in the creation of golden unit tests, reference data, and sample libraries to aid integration of our security technologies across team boundaries (e.g. client/ server).
• Drive security requirements and architecture into custom silicon designed through external vendor.
• Use a wide range of interpersonal and technical skills to champion adoption of our industry leading security technologies across multiple product categories.
• Identify emerging threats, new attacks, and mitigation techniques as the external landscape evolves and drive architecture evolution to stay ahead of industry.

Minimum Qualifications

• BS degree
• Knowledge of basic cryptographic principles (e.g., symmetric vs asymmetric crypto, encryption vs authentication, and/or public key infrastructure implementations)
• Experience in threat modeling system designs spanning across software, hardware and system designs

Preferred Qualifications

• MS or PhD degree and 10+ years of relevant experience
• Experience in user privacy and security, including but not limited to, biometrics, identification and authentication
• Experience in effectively communicating highly technical details to a non-technical audience and leading cross-functional initiatives to define, drive and productize security features
• Experience with communication protocols (e.g. WiFi, BT, UWB), virtualization and confidential compute technologies
• Ability to perform basic review of system design and schematics to understand and analyze security concerns at system level
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Privacy, Safety, Service, Manufacturing, Software, and/or Product teams to resolve system-level security issues
• Ability to critically analyze security properties of a system and evaluate security policy requests via an established security architecture specification
• Programming and/or auditing experience with Python, C, and unix shell scripting

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