Offensive Security Researcher Userland & Kernel Security

Apples Security Engineering u0026 Architecture organization keeps the users of over 2.35 billion active devices around the world safe. That mission is at the heart of everything we do and our team approaches it from the offensive side by finding and helping eliminate vulnerabilities in one of the most sophisticated ecosystems ever built before adversaries can exploit would be joining an extraordinary group of researchers who bring a range of backgrounds and perspectives to the work and who are driven by curiosity passion and genuine engagement with what they do. If you think you can make a difference at this scale join us in protecting all Apple users.

You will join a team whose work spans vulnerability research binary exploitation security tooling development fuzzing machine learning and much more. By harnessing state-of-the-art technologies and developing new ones where they dont yet exist we amplify our impact on the security of Apple this role your primary focus will be on the userland software stack and the kernels of Apple platforms. You will conduct offensive security research across system services apps the kernel and drivers hypervisors or other components essential to the security of Apple users. You will work in cross-functional teams alongside other researchers and engineering teams to evaluate and strengthen every layer of our job is for individuals with outstanding technical skills grit and a genuine passion for breaking systems so we can build them this is you wed love to hear from -office roles in Paris and other locations. Remote considered for experienced candidates.

Proven track record in vulnerability research targeting operating systems for local privilege escalation (LPE) across both kernel and userland attack surfacesnStrong understanding of vulnerability classes and exploitation techniques such as memory corruption race conditions and use-after-freenFluency in applying AI techniques and tools such as LLMs and Machine Learning to security research.

Deep knowledge of kernel internals including virtual memory management system call interfaces and driver frameworksnUnderstanding of state-of-the-art userland vulnerabilities and exploitation techniquesnFamiliarity with recent mitigations such as PAC or MTEnFluency with tool development using programming languages such as C C Python Swift or Objective-CnKnowledge of Apple operating systems like iOS or macOS is nice-to-have but not required