Senior Research Engineer, Privacy and Anonymization at Clera
- Company: Clera
- Location: San Francisco
- Employment type: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-10-06
About the role
ABOUT THE ROLE Build privacy and anonymization systems that help make sensitive real-world data safe and useful for AI training. You will develop end-to-end methods to protect sensitive information while preserving the structure and signal needed for downstream training, evaluation, and synthetic data workflows. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build systems to detect PII, quasi-identifiers, credentials, and other sensitive information, and tailor transformations to data types and use cases. - Develop and benchmark detection approaches that combine rules, statistical models, classifiers, and LLM-based methods. - Create production pipelines that anonymize data before it enters processing, training, evaluation, or synthetic data workflows. - Develop evaluation frameworks for privacy risk and retained utility, including recall-weighted metrics, leakage tests, and adversarial re-identification attempts.…
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