Research Scientist - Privacy

- Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from our product family and provide technical consulting on privacy related features.
- Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
- Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
- Represent PI Lab and our work in external technical and academic communities.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Demonstrated expertise in privacy-enhanced techniques (PET) and related technical domains, including data and identity anonymization, differential privacy, trusted computing, secure multi-party computation, on-device machine learning, privacy-preserving regulation technology, etc.
- Ability to develop research questions regarding the critical industrial challenges of privacy innovation, and knowledge of using technical tools for the required experiments and proof-of-concept prototyping.

Preferred Qualifications:
- PhD in Privacy, Security, Machine Learning, Cryptography, or a related field; or 2 years of experience working on related research.
- Proven records of publications and awards in top security and other related academic conferences.
- Ability to work globally and collaboratively within a team and with external researchers.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $137750 - $237500 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.