Privacy Engineer, User Privacy

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish. Apple delivers great features and great privacy to our users. The Privacy Engineering team works with teams all across the company to make sure that products and services protect user privacy by designing architectures that reduce the exposure of user data at all levels of the technology stack. We are looking for an outstanding candidate to become a member of the Apple User Privacy Team. We are seeking an experienced engineer to provide privacy guidance to teams across Apple working on health, wellness, and fitness features as well as the health research studies that help develop these features. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy preserving data collection methodologies to enable the evaluation of health and fitness features. It also includes guiding how we protect the health data Apple stores within the Data Governance Board. In this role you will: - Review features to identify privacy exposures and partner with teams to design mitigations. - Audit new products to identify bugs in development, and review customer data collected by engineering teams to drive decisions for privacy impact. - Communicate privacy risks and potential mitigations to senior leadership to drive decisions. - Guide the development of data collection systems that enable health features while preserving privacy. - Partner with technical experts in various Health teams to provide guidance to engineers and leaders on the right privacy technology to use when developing new features, and help define how health research is conducted at Apple. Successful candidates will need to have superb communication skills and a passion for protecting privacy. Creative problem solving, analytical, and deductive reasoning skills are critical for this position. You will be working on multiple unrelated systems each week, so the ability to learn quickly and an excitement for new things is a must. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience Experience conducting privacy reviews Experience with health research or the creation of health features Preferred Qualifications: Passion for customer privacy Strong collaboration, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills Ability to learn and research new technologies rapidly, assess privacy exposures, and suggest mitigations Ability to analyze systems’ architectures for privacy impact Ability to solve complex problems independently Programming experience