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Principal Engineer, Privacy

Anthropic · Remote-Friendly (Travel-Required) · San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA · New York City, NY

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Define privacy strategy across products, research data, tooling and clouds.
  • Build primitives for discovery, lineage, access control, retention and deletion.
  • Embed GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA and EU AI Act duties into verified controls.

What they offer

  • competitive compensation and benefits
  • optional equity donation matching
  • generous vacation and parental leave
  • flexible working hours
  • office space for collaboration

Ideal candidate

Senior privacy leader who thrives on ambiguous, company-critical problems and leads through influence. You care about baking privacy into AI systems by default and partnering across engineering, legal and research.

Requirements

  • Track record as Principal engineer or equivalent setting direction adopted by multiple teams
  • Deep experience applying privacy by design, data minimization and purpose limitation at scale
  • Experience architecting data governance infrastructure across distributed cloud systems
  • Proficiency in Python, Go or similar with strong design docs and architectural judgment
  • Understanding of GDPR, CCPA and ability to partner with legal to design technical controls
  • Communication that builds alignment across engineering, research, legal and product

Lab profile

About Anthropic

AI safety company building reliable, interpretable and steerable frontier AI systems.

What they build

  • Claude
  • Claude API
  • Claude Code

Known for

  • AI safety and alignment
  • Model interpretability research
  • Frontier LLM development

Key facts

  • Founded in 2021
  • Headquartered in San Francisco, California
  • Backed by Amazon and Google
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