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Privacy Security Engineer, Privacy & Data Protection - Applied AI

$154K–$217K

Bellevue, WA +4 · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026

Location
Bellevue, WA
Menlo Park, CA
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Experience
5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in technical privacy, data protection, or privacy-adjacent security engineering.
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Applies privacy and data-protection expertise to complex engineering problems and builds AI-augmented tools and evaluations that improve privacy reasoning in AI systems.

What you'll do

  • Analyze and address complex privacy obligations, including data lifecycle, de-identification, and access decisions, using AI tools and agents.
  • Build privacy capabilities and evaluation environments, and provide expert feedback to improve AI models’ privacy reasoning.
  • Partner across legal, policy, product, infrastructure, and research teams to turn obligations into engineering requirements and deliver privacy initiatives.

What they ask for

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 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 and driving complex, ambiguous problems.

Nice to have

  • Production experience with formal de-identification techniques, pseudonymization lifecycle, or jurisdiction-, age-, or cohort-conditioned obligations.
  • Experience improving AI models through expert feedback, red teaming, or evaluation design; privacy/security community contributions are also noted.

Pay

$154,000/year to $217,000/year USD base salary + bonus + equity

Tools

Python, PHP, Java, C/C++

AI focus

Uses AI tools and agents to augment privacy engineering; builds AI-driven privacy solutions and evaluations, provides expert feedback and training signals to improve models’ privacy reasoning, and applies responsible AI practices.

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First seen Oct 22, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)