Principal Engineer, Privacy

About Anthropic Anthropic’s mission is to create reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. We want AI to be safe and beneficial for our users and for society as a whole. Our team is a quickly growing group of committed researchers, engineers, policy experts, and business leaders working together to build beneficial AI systems. About the role Anthropic is working on frontier AI systems that handle sensitive information at enormous scale. How we protect that data, and how we build privacy into our systems rather than bolting it on afterward, is central to our mission of building AI that is safe and beneficial. As one of our principal privacy engineers, you will be among Anthropic's most senior individual contributors on privacy. You will set technical strategy for how personal data is handled across products, research, and infrastructure, and execute the hardest parts of delivering it. You'll work at the intersection of privacy engineering, distributed systems, and AI safety, on problems without established answers. You will lead through influence, quality of thinking, and trust rather than formal authority. Key responsibilities ・Define and drive technical strategy and architecture for major areas of privacy, spanning product surfaces, research and training data, internal tooling, and multiple clouds ・Identify and lead the highest-complexity, company-critical privacy initiatives, guiding engineers across many teams. Be comfortable building the most difficult pieces yourself ・Architect the primitives that make privacy the default and the safe path the fastest one: data discovery, classification, lineage, purpose-based access control, audit, retention, deletion, and export ・Turn regulatory, contractual, and consent obligations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, the EU AI Act) into enforced, continuously verified technical controls in partnersh