AI-Driven Privacy & Data Protection Engineer

Meta; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking Security Engineers with Privacy and Data protection expertise to join our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. You will apply deep privacy engineering expertise to hard, real-world problems in how systems collect, use, retain, expose, and delete data.

Your work is AI-augmented from day one and will shape privacy capabilities at scale. You will collaborate across legal, policy, product, and infrastructure teams to translate obligations into engineering requirements

Qualifications

• B.S. or M.S. in CS, cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Deep expertise in at least one privacy subdomain with ability to advance the state of the art.
• Experience implementing privacy obligations in production systems.
• Proficiency in software engineering with Python, PHP, Java, C/C++, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in technical privacy, data protection, or privacy-adjacent security.
• Experience applying de-identification techniques (differential privacy, k-anonymity) in production.
• Experience handling jurisdictional obligations and deletion workflows and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Apply deep privacy and data protection expertise to identify, scope, and solve complex problems requiring multi-step reasoning.
• Build privacy capabilities, tools, and evaluation environments, prototyping AI-driven solutions at scale.
• Design and execute privacy obligation analysis, de-identification assessment, data lifecycle review, or data access reasoning augmented by AI tools.
• Identify gaps where AI models lack privacy reasoning and contribute to improvements through signals and feedback.
• Collaborate with model researchers to translate privacy expertise into training signals for models.
• Partner with legal, policy, product, and infrastructure teams to translate obligations into engineering requirements.
• Own complex privacy initiatives end to end, from problem definition through delivery.
• Disseminate findings through internal publications and knowledge sharing within the privacy and security community.

Skills

Privacy engineering

AI/ML knowledge

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS or related

Tools

Python

PHP

Java

C/C++

Job description

Meta is seeking Security Engineers with Privacy and Data protection expertise to join our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. You will apply deep privacy engineering expertise to hard, real-world problems in how systems collect, use, retain, expose, and delete data.

Your work is AI-augmented from day one and will shape privacy capabilities at scale. You will collaborate across legal, policy, product, and infrastructure teams to translate obligations into engineering requirements