Software Engineer, Privacy & Data Governance
Artificial-intelligence research and product company building customizable AI systems, including the Tinker training API and Inkling open-weight models.
Funding history
About Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab develops AI products that let researchers and developers fine-tune and use models, while also releasing open-weight multimodal models.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build systems that govern data classification, retention, deletion, access, purpose controls, and auditability. You will implement isolation protections for customer and user data, conduct privacy reviews and threat models, translate legal and policy obligations into code and enforcement checks, and maintain shared privacy libraries and guardrails.
Requirements
- Experience building and operating a production privacy or data governance system
- Experience writing and operating production code in Python or a comparable language
- Experience enforcing privacy or governing data in an AI or ML data pipeline
- Experience choosing and shipping pragmatic privacy controls
- Experience translating legal or policy obligations such as GDPR or CCPA into technical controls
Responsibilities
- Implement privacy and data-governance systems, including data classification, retention, deletion, and data classifiers
- Build isolation guarantees for customer and user data
- Run privacy reviews and threat models for data sources, training runs, and product features
- Translate GDPR, CCPA, and contractual requirements into policy-as-code, CI checks, and pipeline enforcement
- Maintain shared libraries and guardrails for privacy controls
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
