Software Engineer, Privacy & Data Governance
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build privacy systems spanning inventory, access controls, retention and deletion.
- Protect Tinker fine-tuning data and product conversations with isolation guarantees.
- Tackle open questions like deletion requests against trained models.
What they offer
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support as needed
Ideal candidate
Privacy engineer who treats governance as a systems problem and has shipped production controls. Pragmatic builder comfortable weighing privacy against model quality and velocity to ship defensible solutions.
Requirements
- Built and shipped at least one production privacy or data governance system and owned it through operation
- Written and operated production code in Python or comparable language
- Direct experience enforcing privacy or governing data in AI/ML data pipeline
- Chosen pragmatic controls over ideal ones on real systems
- Written technical requirement or control directly from legal obligation like GDPR or CCPA
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas
Lab profile
About Thinking Machines Lab
Builds frontier AI that extends human will and judgment through customizable models and interfaces.
What they build
- Inkling frontier models
- Tinker model customization
- Human-AI communication interfaces
Known for
- Frontier model training
- Post-training and reinforcement learning
- Evaluation infrastructure
- GPU supercomputing and reliability
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