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Apple Security Firmware Engineer United States, Texas, Austin 911465888
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Key Qualifications
- 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.
- Direct experience in the overlap between software and hardware security, and firmware/software technologies.
- Familiarity with modern processor architecture.
- Background in secure coding and code auditing.
- 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 exploitation measures (e.g. ASLR).
- Experience designing and architecting systems with security in mind.
- Exposure to kernel programming.
Description
In this role...* 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.
Education & Experience
Master's (preferred) or Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science or a related field.
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