Clera

Research Engineer, Privacy and Anonymization

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5 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Build systems that detect sensitive information and apply appropriate transformations based on data type and downstream use case.
  • Develop and benchmark rules, statistical models, classifiers, and LLM-based methods for sensitive-content detection.
  • Build production anonymization pipelines for processing, training, evaluation, and synthetic data workflows.
  • Create evaluation frameworks for privacy risk and retained data utility, including leakage tests and adversarial re-identification attempts.
  • Design systems robust to new data sources, schema drift, unusual formats, and sensitive information in unexpected fields.
  • Collaborate with engineering, research, operations, and customers to translate privacy requirements into technical policies and safeguards.

Requirements

  • At least 2 years of experience building reliable production data or machine learning systems in Python.
  • Hands-on experience with information extraction, named-entity recognition, classification, or related sensitive-content detection methods.
  • Experience building end-to-end data processing pipelines without a fully prescribed roadmap.
  • Ability to compare approaches across recall, precision, latency, cost, and downstream data utility.
  • Understanding of redaction, masking, pseudonymization, anonymization, and synthetic data generation.
  • Experience designing systems robust to schema drift, unusual formats, and edge cases.
  • Familiarity with differential privacy, k-anonymity, secure aggregation, or format-preserving encryption is preferred.
  • Experience with low-latency or high-throughput machine learning inference and data processing systems is preferred.
  • Experience working with sensitive data in healthcare, finance, security, or related domains is preferred.

Benefits

  • The role is on-site in San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Visa sponsorship is available.

Tech Stack

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Data EngineeringSecurity
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