AI/ML Internship: Self-Improving AI Agents for Cybersecurity, SEAR

AI agents have reached the point where they find real vulnerabilities in software. How well they do depends heavily on the harness around the model: its tools, scaffolding, model choice, memory, and orchestration. Hand-tuning these harnesses does not scale, and agents that improve their own harnesses are still largely unexplored especially for security-related tasks.

In this role, you will contribute to this effort: building on existing work towards creating agents and methods that design, evaluate, and improve their own harness. Apple's Security Engineering & Architecture organization is responsible for the security of every Apple product. AI is rapidly changing how cybersecurity work gets done.

When it comes to securing more than a billion devices running the world's most sophisticated operating systems, that means ensuring that we make full use of AI's capabilities while maintaining high-quality standards. This internship focuses on developing methods for automatically improving AI agents for security tasks.

During this internship, you will work with some of the best security researchers in the world to apply AI to real-world security problems and to develop new AI methods. We are looking for students in AI/ML with an interest in agentic AI who want to take on the hard, open problems that cybersecurity offers. No prior experience in cybersecurity is required.