Meta
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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