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

Summary

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple delivers great features and great privacy to our users. The Privacy Engineering team works with teams all across the company to make sure that products and services protect user privacy by designing architectures that reduce the exposure of user data at all levels of the technology stack. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to become a member of the Apple User Privacy Team.

Description

We are seeking an experienced engineer to provide privacy guidance to teams across Apple working on machine learning and generative Al intrastructure. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy preserving data collection methodologies to enable the evaluation of Al systems. It also includes guiding the roadmap of privacy technologies at Apple like differential privacy and private federated learning.
In this role you will:

-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 Al 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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Minimum 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 analyze system architectures for privacy impact
Ability to solve complex problems independently
Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills