MP
$405,000 – $485,000
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What this role is
Join Anthropic as a foundational privacy engineer establishing the privacy function for frontier AI systems, designing and implementing privacy-preserving architectures from the ground up. This senior individual contributor role combines privacy engineering, AI safety, and distributed systems work to embed privacy protections into large-scale AI training and inference systems while ensuring regulatory compliance.
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What they ask for
Required
- Production experience with privacy engineering principles including privacy by design, data minimization, and purpose limitation
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages with production systems at scale experience
- Experience designing and implementing privacy infrastructure for large-user-base systems
- Data governance, classification, or data lifecycle management experience
- Understanding of GDPR and CCPA with ability to translate legal requirements into technical designs
- Experience conducting privacy reviews, threat modeling, or risk assessments
- Written and verbal communication skills for alignment across engineering, research, legal, and product teams
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience with privacy-enhancing technologies like differential privacy, homomorphic encryption, secure enclaves, or secure multi-party computation
- Privacy infrastructure or controls for machine learning or AI systems
- Experience establishing a privacy engineering practice or as an early hire in a function
- Distributed systems and cloud infrastructure at scale experience
- Technical lead experience on complex multi-quarter projects
- Contributions to open-source privacy tooling, privacy research, or industry standards
- 12+ years in software engineering with large-scale infrastructure experience
- 3+ years leading large, complex projects as a technical lead