About this role

Apple is hiring a mid-level Security Engineer based in Cupertino, CA. The posting calls out experience with Encryption, Security. Listed education preference: a bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Role: Security Engineer
Function: security
Level: mid
Track: Individual contributor
Location: Cupertino, CA
Education: Bachelor's degree
Department: Software and Services
Posted: Jun 30, 2026

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Mid-level Security Engineer providing privacy guidance to Apple teams across core applications like Wallet, Mail, and Safari. Conducts feature reviews, designs privacy-preserving data collection methodologies, and analyzes system architectures for privacy impact. Requires cryptography expertise, differential privacy or federated learning experience, and strong programming skills.

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Job description

from Apple careers

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple delivers great features and great privacy to our users. The Privacy Engineering team works with teams all across the company to make sure that products and services protect user privacy by designing architectures that reduce the exposure of user data at all levels of the technology stack. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to become a member of the Apple User Privacy Team.
We are seeking an experienced engineer to provide privacy guidance to teams across Apple working on core applications such as Wallet, Mail and Safari. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy preserving data collection methodologies to enable Apple to improve products with industry-leading privacy.

<h3>Minimum Qualifications</h3>BSCS or equivalent experience
Experience with cryptography and its use for end-to-end encrypting data or anonymizing users
Experience with differential privacy or private federated learning
Programming experience
<h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3>Passion for customer privacy
Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
Ability to learn and research new technologies rapidly, assess privacy exposures, and suggest mitigations
Ability to analyze systems’ architectures for privacy impact
Ability to solve complex problems independently