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Research Engineer, Privacy and Anonymization

Clera-AI · Posted Nov 5, 2026

Build privacy and anonymization systems for an AI infrastructure team, helping make sensitive real-world data safe and useful for model training.

Base salary: $130,000 to $225,000 annually.

Build systems to detect PII, quasi-identifiers, credentials, and other sensitive information, and choose transformations suited to each data type and use case.
Develop and benchmark detection methods combining rules, statistical models, classifiers, and LLM-based approaches.
Create production pipelines that anonymize raw data before downstream processing, training, evaluation, or synthetic data generation.
Build evaluation frameworks for privacy risk and retained utility, including recall-weighted metrics, leakage tests, and adversarial re-identification attempts.
Design robust systems for new data sources, schema drift, unusual formats, and sensitive information in unexpected fields.