Apple

Systems Engineer — Apple Reference Image

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23 hours ago
Cupertino, CA, USASenior
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to and maintain systems architecture across sensor-level signing, on-device RAW capture pipelines, Private Cloud Compute processing, and application experiences.
  • Design and implement cryptographic key rotation, certificate lifecycle management, and revocation frameworks.
  • Threat-model end-to-end media authenticity workflows with Security and Privacy teams, including cryptographic integrity, data privacy, and non-destructive editing.
  • Evaluate image container formats and metadata support for secure provenance and authenticity.
  • Coordinate with cloud infrastructure teams to integrate scalable signing and certificate infrastructure.
  • Represent technical tradeoffs, identify cross-team dependencies, and help plan future hardware generations under the project DRI.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 5 years of industry experience.
  • Familiarity with cryptographic signing and verification, certificates, secure boot, key management, and revocation.
  • Experience with image or media pipelines, including RAW processing, ISP behavior, DNG, JPEG, or HEIF, is preferred.
  • Experience with distributed cloud infrastructure and confidential compute environments such as Private Cloud Compute is preferred.
  • Ability to coordinate across hardware, platform software, cloud, privacy, legal, QA, and other stakeholder teams.
  • Strong communication skills for explaining technical tradeoffs to engineering and non-engineering stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with trusted timestamping, certificate issuance and validation, international privacy and regulatory considerations, and security or trust features shipped across multiple operating systems is preferred.
  • Ability to code to fill functional gaps and experience with sensitive third-party applications are preferred.

Tech Stack

iOSmacOS

Categories

Apple

About Apple

10,000+ employees

Apple designs and sells consumer electronics, software, and services for consumers and professionals worldwide, including iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and AirPods, plus platforms like iOS/macOS and services such as the App Store, iCloud, Music, and TV+. Its business combines device sales with services and subscriptions and in-house silicon design. Founded in 1976, Apple is headquartered in Cupertino, California, and trades on NASDAQ as AAPL.

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