Senior Privacy Engineer, Intelligence (User Privacy)

Apple Inc

Cupertino, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Apple, Architectural Analysis, Architectural Design, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Communication Skills, Cryptography, Customer Experience, Customer/Client Research, Data Collection, Debugging Skills, Interpersonal Skills, Leadership, Machine Learning, Organizational Skills, People Management, Privacy Controls, Problem Solving Skills, Risk Management, System Architecture, Systems Analysis, Technical Research, User Documentation
LOCATION
Cupertino, CA
POSTED
28 days ago

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and theres no telling what you could accomplish. Apple delivers great features and great privacy to our users. The Privacy Engineering team works with teams all across the company to make sure that products and services protect user privacy by designing architectures that reduce the exposure of user data at all levels of the technology stack. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to become a member of the Apple User Privacy Team.

We are seeking an experienced engineer to provide privacy guidance to teams across Apple working on machine learning and generative AI infrastructure. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy preserving data collection methodologies to enable the evaluation of AI systems. It also includes guiding the roadmap of privacy technologies at Apple like differential privacy and private federated learning.

In this role you will:

  • Review features to identify privacy exposures and partner with teams to design mitigations.
  • Audit new products to identify bugs in development, and review customer data collected by engineering teams to drive decisions for privacy impact.
  • Communicate privacy risks and potential mitigations to senior leadership to drive decisions.
  • Guide the development of data collection systems that enable training and evaluation of generative AI systems while preserving privacy.
  • Partner with cryptographers and technical experts in SWE and AIML to develop our roadmap for privacy technologies, and provide guidance to engineers and leaders on the right privacy technology to use when developing new features.

Successful candidates will need to have superb communication skills and a passion for protecting privacy. Creative problem solving, analytical, and deductive reasoning skills are critical for this position. You will be working on multiple unrelated systems each week, so the ability to learn quickly and an excitement for new things is a must. BSCS or equivalent experience Experience with foundation models, including training and evaluation Experience with differential privacy or private federated learning Experience conducting privacy reviewsPassion for customer privacy Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills Ability to learn and research new technologies rapidly, assess privacy exposures, and suggest mitigations Ability to analyze systems' architectures for privacy impact Ability to solve complex problems independently Programming experience

About the Company

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Apple Inc

We bring amazing people together to make amazing things happen.

We’re a diverse collection of thinkers and doers, continually reimagining what’s possible to help us all do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, as well as with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay. And the same passion for innovation that goes into our products also applies to our practices — strengthening our commitment to leave the world better than we found it.

About Apple

There’s a place here for every kind of brilliant. Everyone here is an innovator, or an innovator-to-be, no matter what your team or your role. So bring your passion, courage, and original thinking and get ready to share it, because every new product, service, or feature we invent is the result of people working together to make each others’ ideas stronger. Innovation at this level depends on people who represent the variety of the human experience and inspire us with their own fresh perspectives. Together, we’ll do amazing work that can make a difference in people’s lives. Including your own. Learn more about working at Apple.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1976
WEBSITE
https://www.apple.com/jobs