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Sr. Applied Scientist - Privacy, Privacy Engineering
Amazon
Seattle, WA, USA
Posted on Jun 3, 2025
DESCRIPTION
Amazon is seeking an innovative and high-judgement Senior Applied Scientist to join the Privacy Engineering team in the Amazon Privacy Services org. We own products and programs that deliver technical innovation for ensuring compliance with high-impact, urgent regulation across Amazon services worldwide.
The Senior Applied Scientist will contribute to the strategic direction for Amazon’s privacy practices while building/owning the compliance approach for individual regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), DMA, Quebec 25 etc. This will require helping to frame, and participating in, high judgment debates and decision making across senior business, technology, legal, and public policy leaders.
A great candidate will have a unique combination of experience with the theory and application modern privacy protection methods like differential privacy, synthetic data generation etc. You will be responsible for leading the implementation of privacy preserving mechanisms across applications and measuring improvements in privacy threat mitigation from these implementations. As a builder you will need to demonstrate high judgement in system architecture decisions and ability to set detailed technical design. You will drive foundational frameworks for privacy, set technical requirements, and have end to end accountability for delivering privacy services.
Key job responsibilities
* Develop statistical methods and associated software abstractions to measure privacy risks from data processing activities across applications
* Develop frameworks and libraries for implementing privacy budgets, differential privacy and synthetic data mechanisms across applications.
* Leverage Amazon’s heterogeneous data sources and large-scale computing resources to accelerate advances in generative artificial intelligence for privacy assessment and enhancement.
* Collaborate with other science and engineering teams as well as business stakeholders to maximize the velocity and impact of your contributions.