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Senior Privacy Engineer, Intelligence (User Privacy)

Apple· Software and Services / Privacy Engineering
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Cupertino, California$184.7k - $324.8kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Privacy-focused engineer to provide guidance on machine learning and generative AI infrastructure, review features for privacy exposures, design privacy-preserving data collection methodologies, and guide the privacy technology roadmap (e.g., differential privacy, private federated learning) across Apple’s teams.

Responsibilities

  • Review features to identify privacy exposures and partner with teams to design mitigations.
  • Audit new products to identify bugs in development, review customer data collected by engineering teams to drive privacy impact decisions.
  • 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 the roadmap for privacy technologies, and provide guidance to engineers and leaders on the right privacy technology to use when developing new features.

Qualifications

  • BSCS or equivalent experience
  • Experience with foundation models, including training and evaluation
  • Experience with differential privacy or private federated learning
  • Experience conducting privacy reviews

Skills

Required:Privacy risk assessmentCommunicationPrivacy reviewsMachine learning / foundation modelsDifferential privacy / private federated learningSystems architecture analysisProgramming

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • education reimbursement for career advancement (tuition)
  • discretionary bonuses or commission possibilities
  • relocation assistance
Last updated Sep 18, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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