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Privacy Security Engineer, Privacy & Data Protection - Applied AI

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Menlo Park, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$184k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Solve ambiguous privacy and data protection problems with requirements that initially may be unknown and affect multiple teams.
  • Architect privacy capabilities and evaluation infrastructure for AI-driven privacy solutions at scale.
  • Lead methodologies for jurisdictional obligations, de-identification, data lifecycle controls, and data access reasoning.
  • Translate privacy expertise into systematic and scalable AI capability improvements.
  • Drive cross-organizational partnerships and influence technical direction at the intersection of privacy and AI.
  • Own technically complex workstreams while enabling others to execute the broader solution.
  • Mentor engineers, build a privacy engineering community, and model strong engineering practices.
  • Share findings through internal publications, knowledge sharing, and contributions to the privacy and security community.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 8 years of hands-on engineering experience in technical privacy, data protection, or privacy-adjacent security engineering.
  • Deep expertise in a privacy subdomain such as purpose limitation, retention and deletion, data access control, jurisdictional obligations, de-identification, consent, or ML and model privacy.
  • Experience implementing privacy obligations in production systems, beyond reviewing or advising on them.
  • Software engineering proficiency, including code review and maintenance, with experience in Python, PHP, Java, C, C++, or an equivalent language.
  • Experience architecting privacy systems, controls, or programs that operate at scale and influence how others build.
  • Ability to define and drive complex, ambiguous problem spaces with group-level impact.
  • Preferred experience with responsible AI practices, AI model evaluation or red teaming, pseudonymization lifecycle, AI workflow optimization, prompt or context engineering, agent orchestration, jurisdictional or age-based obligations, privacy or security community contributions, formal de-identification techniques, privacy incident response, and ML or model privacy.

Benefits

  • Base salary is $184,000/year to $257,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

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About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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