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We serve every frontier AI lab with the mission of delivering the best data to power the best models. In doing so, we can make expertise that once took a lifetime to build available to anyone who needs it.\nOur customers are the ones building the foundation models themselves and our work sits directly in the loop of how those systems improve. This is a rare opportunity to join a company at a defining moment in AI. Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation. We're based in San Francisco and backed by leading investors including Altos Ventures, BoxGroup, and Y Combinator and angels from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta Superintelligence Labs, and Microsoft AI.\nWhy Apply\nMassive Opportunity: Forbes reported that we could be YC's fastest unicorn, reportedly raising at a $3.2 billion valuation, and we're not slowing down.\nFounding Impact: You will own and architect core infrastructure systems that power our platform from the ground up.\nEquity & Growth: Competitive salary and meaningful equity. As we scale, you’ll have the opportunity to shape the engineering organization and lead major technical initiatives.\nStrong Team: Our founding team has experience from Citadel Securities, Meta, Google, Silver Lake, and Morgan Stanley - work alongside world-class engineers and researchers.\nOverview\nAfterQuery builds the data and evaluation systems that power frontier AI models. Every leading AI lab uses our datasets and reinforcement learning environments to encode and scale real-world expertise.\nWe’re hiring a Machine Learning Engineer, Data Privacy & Anonymization to build the lasting systems that enable us to handle sensitive customer data safely. You'll own anonymization layers, and infrastructure that sits inline with production software, detects identifying information in whatever passes through it, and transforms that data without destroying its usefulness. You’ll support AfterQuery’s mission by curating trainable data from real-world corpuses.\nResponsibilities\nBuild detection models for PII, PHI, and quasi-identifiers across free text, logs, structured payloads, and code\n\nOwn the transformation layer: redaction, masking, pseudonymization, tokenization, and format-preserving encryption, chosen per entity and policy\n\nShip the runtime adaptor: streaming inference, latency budgets, fail-open vs. fail-closed semantics, schema drift\n\nBuild evaluation infrastructure with recall-weighted metrics and re-identification attacks against our own output\n\nMake anonymization policy a config surface as customer and jurisdiction requirements diverge\n\nOwn high-impact systems from early design through production deployment\n\nRequired Qualifications\n3-6 YOE with relevant experiences\n\nStrong software engineering background with experience shipping production systems\n\nExperience building data pipelines at production scale, handling large volumes of data\n\nApplied NLP: NER, sequence labeling, or information extraction on messy text. Fraud or trust/safety detection work where recall on rare events was the objective also counts\n\nExperience with low-latency inference services: streaming pipelines, sidecars, or event systems\n\nAbility to move quickly in a high-ownership, fast-changing environment\n\nDeep care for quality, precision, and customer impact\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nHIPAA Safe Harbor or Expert Determination, GDPR pseudonymization, differential privacy, k-anonymity, synthetic data, tokenization vaults, or prior health-tech/fintech privacy work.\n\nCompany Benefits (For Eligible Employees):\nHealth Insurance: Medical, Vision, Dental\n\n401(k) with Employer Match\n\nDaily Meals: Daily UberEats Stipend\n\nMonthly Wellness Stipend\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a workplace free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to legally protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law.\nWe comply with applicable pay transparency requirements and provide compensation ranges based on the position, qualifications, experience, and other relevant factors. Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by law. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed and is not an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications, or working conditions associated with the position. 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