Adversarial Privacy Engineer, Red Team Lead

Meta; Lansing (MI); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, a specialized function that proactively identifies and mitigates privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. You will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attack scenarios, and drive improvements to privacy-protective systems.

This is a high-impact role requiring collaboration with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface vulnerabilities at scale and translate findings into

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in privacy engineering, security engineering, or related field focusing on adversarial testing, vulnerability research, or privacy risk assessment.
• Experience designing and executing privacy or security red team assessments across large-scale consumer products.
• Experience identifying and exploiting privacy vulnerabilities such as re-identification risks, data minimization failures, or consent bypass.
• Experience communicating technical privacy risk findings to engineering teams and leadership.
• Experience driving cross-functional remediation efforts and influencing product decisions through privacy risk analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute adversarial privacy assessments across Meta's products and infrastructure.
• Develop a red team methodology and testing framework for privacy risks.
• Identify systemic privacy vulnerabilities and drive remediation with cross-functional partners.
• Improve privacy red team processes, tooling, and workflows for scalable testing.
• Translate complex findings into actionable risk assessments for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Align red team findings with regulatory obligations and internal privacy standards.
• Drive long-term strategy and roadmap for privacy red team operations.
• Mentor engineers on adversarial testing techniques to foster proactive risk identification.
• Lead coordinated responses to large-scale privacy risk escalations across teams.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Red team

Threat modeling

Adversarial testing

Vulnerability research

Data privacy

Tools

Automation tooling

Job description

Meta is seeking a Privacy Engineer to join the Privacy Red Team, a specialized function that proactively identifies and mitigates privacy risks across Meta's apps and services. You will conduct adversarial privacy assessments, simulate real-world privacy attack scenarios, and drive improvements to privacy-protective systems.

This is a high-impact role requiring collaboration with product, legal, policy, and engineering teams to surface vulnerabilities at scale and translate findings into