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Privacy Engineer - Systems Experiences, Apps, and Technologies

Cupertino, CAOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • BSCS
  • cryptography
  • anonymizing users
  • differential privacy
  • private federated learning
  • privacy exposures
  • privacy impact
  • data collection requests
  • privacy preserving features
  • fraud detection algorithms

Nice to have

  • customer privacy
  • research new technologies
  • assess privacy exposures
  • suggest mitigations
  • analyze systems’ architectures
  • solve complex problems

Role summary

Apple is seeking an experienced Privacy Engineer to join their User Privacy Team. This role involves providing privacy guidance to teams working on core applications like Wallet, Mail, and Safari. Responsibilities include reviewing features for privacy exposures, designing new privacy-preserving data collection methodologies, auditing products for bugs and privacy impact, and communicating risks to senior leadership. The role requires experience with cryptography, differential privacy, and programming, with preferred qualifications in systems architecture analysis, fraud detection, and web/payment technologies.

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 there's 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.

Description


We are seeking an experienced engineer to provide privacy guidance to teams across Apple working on core applications such as Wallet, Mail and Safari. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy preserving data collection methodologies to enable Apple to improve products with industry-leading privacy. 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. - Review data collection requests and systems that enable product improvement while preserving privacy. - Partner with technical experts in web browsing and digital payments to build privacy-preserving features and technologies, including fraud detection algorithms. 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.

Minimum Qualifications


BSCS or equivalent experience Experience with cryptography and its use for end-to-end encrypting data or anonymizing users Experience with differential privacy or private federated learning Programming experience

Preferred Qualifications


Passion 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

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