Highlights
Youll be surrounded by the most creative, passionate, and talented engineers in the industry, constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make devices safer and secure. The Core Platform team within Apples CoreOS organization brings Apple's iPhone, iPad, iWatch, Mac, and Home products to life.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Cupertino, CA |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 10,000 employees or more |
| Year Founded | 1976 |
| Website | https://www.apple.com/jobs |
Description
The Core Platform team within Apples CoreOS organization brings Apple's iPhone, iPad, iWatch, Mac, and Home products to life. The ROMs and firmware we develop are at the foundation our devices' security. We are looking for a motivated software engineer to bring our firmware security to the next level. Your work will have a real impact on Apple products and features, from the software down to the silicon. As an Apple employee, youll be part of a company whose commitment to user privacy is at the heart of everything we do. Youll be surrounded by the most creative, passionate, and talented engineers in the industry, constantly being challenged to go beyond the norm to find new, innovative ways of solving problems and to make devices safer and secure.
Work with the Product & System Security teams in implementing the security patches. Contribute to the software and hardware roadmap for new security features on a range of platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Home products. Assist with audit of security critical code and hardware, review and implement patches. Create tools that help automate security verification, testing. Improve firmware architecture and APIs to build security into the core. Deploy security mitigations suitable for use in an embedded environment. Work with multi-functional teams to extend secure boot technologies. Collaborate with testing organizations to verify security features and fuzz for vulnerabilities. A passion for embedded development and security Understanding of software vulnerabilities and mitigations Experience with secure boot and related cryptographic applications for platform security, principles and use of cryptographic primitives and protocols. Background in secure coding and code auditing. Direct experience in the overlap between software and hardware security, and firmware/software technologies. Familiarity with modern processor architecture. Experience designing and architecting systems with security in mind. Have an understanding of past, current, and emerging security exploit types. Experience in creating working proof of concepts from found vulnerabilities on systems with advanced anti Exposure to kernel programming.
About Company
We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.
We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.
About Apple
There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.