Principal Engineer, Privacy

Anthropic is seeking a Principal Privacy Engineer to set technical strategy for handling personal data across products, research, and infrastructure. Responsibilities include defining privacy architecture, leading high-complexity initiatives, building data governance primitives, translating regulations into technical controls, and mentoring engineers. The role requires deep experience in privacy engineering, distributed systems, and AI safety.

Required: track record as Principal engineer, deep experience in privacy engineering principles in production systems, experience architecting data governance infrastructure at scale, proficiency in Python/Go, understanding of privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA), strong communication. Preferred: experience with ML/AI privacy infrastructure, privacy-enhancing technologies, establishing privacy engineering practice, briefing executives, growing engineers, open-source contributions.