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Principal Engineer, Privacy

Anthropic Friendly (Travel-Required Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$485,000-$625,000 USD per year

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Description

Anthropic is working on frontier AI systems that handle sensitive information at enormous scale. As a Principal Engineer, Privacy, you will set technical strategy for handling personal data across products, research, and infrastructure, and execute the hardest parts of delivering it.

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for major areas of privacy
  • Identify and lead high-complexity, company-critical privacy initiatives
  • Architect primitives for privacy, including data discovery, classification, and access control
  • Turn regulatory obligations into enforced technical controls
  • Anticipate AI capabilities, regulation, and customer expectations
  • Mentor and develop staff and senior staff engineers
  • Represent Anthropic's privacy engineering to customers, regulators, and the research community

Minimum Qualifications

  • Track record of operating as a Principal engineer or equivalent
  • Deep experience applying privacy engineering principles in production systems
  • Experience architecting data governance infrastructure
  • Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages
  • Understanding of privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building privacy infrastructure for machine learning or AI systems
  • Hands-on experience with privacy-enhancing technologies
  • Experience establishing or re-architecting a privacy engineering practice
  • Experience briefing executives, auditors, regulators, or enterprise customers
  • History of growing engineers into Staff-level and more senior roles

The annual compensation range for this role is $485,000-$625,000 USD.

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Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • machine learning
  • AI systems
  • privacy-enhancing technologies
  • differential privacy
  • homomorphic encryption

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