Privacy Engineer - Health

Apple • Cupertino, CA

12d

About The Position

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.

DESCRIPTION

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.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience conducting privacy reviews
• Experience with health research or the creation of health features

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees