Senior Privacy Engineer, Privacy Engineering

Cupertino Until 9/23/2026 First posted July 25, 2026 Last posted July 25, 2026
Job description

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, with a particular focus on our advertising platforms. This includes feature reviews and the design of new, privacy-preserving data collection, ad selection, and measurement methodologies that allow Apple and advertisers to understand and improve campaign performance without compromising user privacy. It also includes guiding the roadmap of privacy-enhancing technologies used in ads attribution and optimization, such as differential privacy, on-device aggregation, multi-party computation, and privacy-preserving ad measurement protocols.

Minimum Qualifications

BSCS or equivalent experience
Experience conducting privacy reviews for advertising, measurement, or attribution systems
Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies relevant to ads attribution, such as differential privacy, private/aggregated measurement, or private set intersection
Programming experience

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
Familiarity with industry attribution standards and privacy-preserving ad measurement approaches (e.g., aggregated event measurement, on-device attribution)
Knowledgeable about Apple's privacy pillars(https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10085/)& AdAttributionKit and SKAdNetwork frameworks

About this role

Summary

Provide privacy guidance for ad systems, design privacy-preserving measurement methodologies, analyze system privacy impacts.

Job title

Senior Privacy Engineer, Privacy Engineering

Experience level

null

Industry

technology

Location requirements

Must be located in Cupertino or remote allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

privacy reviewsdifferential privacyprogramming

Preferred skills

customer privacycollaborationprivacy technologiessystem analysisApple frameworks

Specializations

privacyadvertisingmeasurementdifferential privacyon-device aggregation
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Cupertino, CA, USA

Hybrid City

Cupertino, CA, USA

Remote City