Meta
Privacy Security Engineer, Privacy & Data Protection - Applied AI
$184K–$257K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience.
- Education
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.
About the job
Applies deep privacy engineering expertise to build and evaluate AI-driven privacy capabilities and address complex data protection problems across Meta.
What you'll do
- Architect privacy capabilities and evaluation infrastructure, and drive platform-level decisions for AI-driven privacy solutions.
- Develop strategies and methods for privacy problems AI cannot yet reason about, including regulatory obligations, de-identification, data lifecycle controls, and access reasoning.
- Lead cross-organizational work, mentor engineers, and shape how privacy expertise improves AI capabilities.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience in technical privacy, data protection, or privacy-adjacent security engineering.
- Deep expertise in at least one privacy subdomain and experience implementing privacy obligations in production systems.
- Software engineering proficiency, including code review and maintenance, in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++, or an equivalent language.
- Experience architecting privacy systems, controls, or programs at scale; defining complex ambiguous problems; and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices.
Nice to have
- Experience improving AI model performance through expert feedback, red teaming, or evaluation design; integrating AI tools into workflows; and ongoing AI skill development.
- Experience with pseudonymization lifecycle, jurisdiction- or cohort-conditioned obligations, production de-identification techniques, privacy review or incident response at scale, ML and model privacy, or community contributions.
Pay
$184,000/year to $257,000/year USD base salary; bonus and equity amounts not stated
Tools
Python, PHP, Java, C/C++
AI focus
Uses AI tools and agents to improve workflows and develops methodologies, evaluations, and expert feedback to improve AI capabilities for privacy problems.
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