Research Engineer — Privacy & Security

Serus; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Serus seeks a researcher to explore privacy and security challenges across the product, shaping research directions and influencing feature design.

You will design proofs and prototypes, connect research to concrete product problems, and collaborate with engineers to implement secure capabilities that improve user protection.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in privacy, security or applied cryptography.
• Ability to connect research to concrete product problems.
• Strong programming skills and experience implementing ideas.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities to strengthen privacy and security across Serus.
• Research relevant techniques and assess their practical applications.
• Design and implement prototypes.
• Evaluate security properties, performance and usability.
• Build advanced privacy and security features with the engineering team.
• Help shape our longer-term research agenda.

Skills

Privacy research

Applied cryptography

Prototyping

Research to product

Independent work

Tools

Python

Rust

Job description

You will work across applied research and software development, with room to shape the direction around your expertise and the product’s needs.

Anon AI Labs, the company behind Serus. Location: San Francisco / New York. UK, Sweden and other locations considered.

About us

Serus helps people understand and reduce their digital exposure. As our product and agents become more capable, we want to advance how they protect sensitive information and act securely on the user’s behalf.

We’re hiring someone who can identify valuable research opportunities and turn them into working privacy and security features.

The role

Potential areas include differential privacy, zero-knowledge proofs, private computation, identity and secure delegation. We want to identify where these and other techniques can create tangible improvements for users.

You should enjoy investigating difficult questions, building prototypes and helping bring successful ideas into production.

What you’ll do

• Identify opportunities to strengthen privacy and security across Serus.
• Research relevant techniques and assess their practical applications.
• Design and implement prototypes.
• Evaluate security properties, performance and usability.
• Build advanced privacy and security features with the engineering team.
• Improve how our systems handle sensitive information, identity and delegated actions.
• Help shape our longer-term research agenda.

What we’re looking for

• Deep expertise in a relevant area of privacy, security or applied cryptography.
• Strong programming skills and experience implementing your ideas.
• The ability to connect research to a concrete product problem.
• Clear reasoning about assumptions, guarantees and tradeoffs.
• Independence and good judgment about which problems are worth pursuing.
• A strong research record is valuable. So are substantial implementations, open-source contributions and exceptional industry work.