Senior Privacy Engineer – Ads & Measurement Privacy

Apple Inc.; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 184,700 - 324,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shareholder programs

Stock awards plan

Medical & dental

Retirement benefits

Discounted products

Education reimbursement

Relocation

Job summary

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks a Privacy Engineer to provide privacy guidance across advertising platforms, focusing on data collection, ad selection, and measurement while preserving user privacy.

You will review features, lead privacy reviews for ad serving and attribution, and collaborate with Legal, Product Marketing, and SWE/AIML to advance privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy and on-device aggregation.

Qualifications

• BSCS or equivalent experience.
• Experience conducting privacy reviews for advertising, measurement, or attribution systems.
• Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies relevant to ads attribution, such as differential privacy, private/aggregated measurement, or private set intersection.
• Programming experience.

Responsibilities

• Review features across Ads platforms to identify privacy exposures and design mitigations.
• Lead privacy reviews for ad serving, measurement, and attribution systems, evaluating data collection, aggregation, and reporting, and advocating for user privacy protections.
• 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, collaborating closely with partners in Legal and Product Marketing.
• Guide the development of ads attribution and measurement systems that preserve user privacy, applying techniques such as data minimization, differential privacy, aggregated/on-device reporting, and private set intersection.
• Partner with engineers across Ads, SWE, and AIML to develop our roadmap for privacy-enhancing technologies, and advise engineers and leaders on the right privacy technology to use when building new advertising and attribution features.
• Review data collection requests and systems that enable product and advertiser insight while preserving privacy.
• Ensure Apple's products and services are designed to protect privacy as a fundamental human right.
• Successful candidates will need to have superb communication skills and a passion for protecting privacy. Creative problem solving, analytical, and deductive reasoning skills are critical for this position. You will be working on multiple unrelated systems each week, so the ability to learn quickly and an excitement for new things is a must.

Skills

Privacy engineering

Programming experience

Communication skills

Education

BSCS or equivalent experience

Job description

Apple Inc. in Cupertino, California, seeks a Privacy Engineer to provide privacy guidance across advertising platforms, focusing on data collection, ad selection, and measurement while preserving user privacy.

You will review features, lead privacy reviews for ad serving and attribution, and collaborate with Legal, Product Marketing, and SWE/AIML to advance privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy and on-device aggregation.