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Senior Privacy Software Engineer, Privacy Engineering (sensing and Intelligence)

Apple· Software and Services
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Cupertino, CA$184.7k - $277.6kfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior role within Apple’s Privacy Engineering team focused on guiding privacy across machine learning and generative AI infrastructure, including data collection methodologies, privacy technologies (e.g., differential privacy, private federated learning), and collaboration with cryptographers and subject-mpecific engineers to protect user privacy.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Qualifications

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
  • Programming experience
  • Ability to analyze system architectures for privacy impact
  • Ability to learn and research new technologies rapidly, assess privacy exposures, and suggest mitigations
  • Ability to solve complex problems independently
  • Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  • Passion for customer privacy
  • Demonstrated interdisciplinary interest in the intersection of technology, policy, and society
  • Experience with foundation models, including training and evaluation
  • Experience with differential privacy or private federated learning

Skills

Required:Privacy risk assessmentData collection design for AICommunication with leadership

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and dental coverage
  • retirement benefits
  • discounted products and free services
  • reimbursement for certain educational expenses including tuition
  • discretionary bonuses or commission payments (possible)
  • relocation (possible)
  • employee stock programs including discretionary RSUs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Last updated Aug 28, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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