Privacy By Design Engineer

About the role

This role is categorized as hybrid. The successful candidate is expected to report to the Warren Global Technical Center or Austin Technical Center three times per week, at minimum (or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop technical privacy solutions for current, emerging, and strategic enterprise and vehicle programs.
• Analyze business, data, and system requirements to identify privacy risks and control requirements.
• Perform detailed design analysis and recommend privacy‑by‑design implementation approaches.
• Develop technical specifications and engineering artifacts for privacy capabilities.
• Participate in software design reviews and provide privacy engineering guidance.
• Support development teams with implementation and troubleshooting of privacy controls.
• Contribute to the correction of software design issues and privacy‑related defects.
• Communicate privacy engineering best practices across the software engineering community.
• Serve as a Privacy Engineering Subject Matter Expert (SME) within assigned programs and initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain privacy‑by‑design solutions across enterprise platforms and vehicle systems.
• Engineer privacy controls that protect personal, sensitive, and regulated data throughout its lifecycle.
• Build and operationalize privacy‑enhancing technologies and reusable privacy services.
• Implement privacy‑preserving solutions such as pseudonymization, tokenization, encryption, data masking, consent and preference management, access control, data minimization, DLP integrations, and other PETs.
• Embed privacy requirements into data, analytics, AI, software, and vehicle development processes.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate privacy controls into applications, platforms, APIs, and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with product and platform teams to ensure privacy requirements are addressed during solution design and development.
• Support privacy reviews and solution assessments for new initiatives and technologies.
• Contribute to privacy engineering standards, reference architectures, frameworks, and best practices.
• Translate regulatory, policy, and governance requirements into technical implementation requirements.
• Support privacy impact assessments, control validation activities, and compliance reviews.
• Create technical documentation and implementation guidance for engineering teams.
• Support audits, regulatory reviews, and compliance assessments through implementation of demonstrable technical controls.
• Assist in gathering evidence and documenting privacy control effectiveness.
• Monitor privacy controls and support remediation of identified risks or gaps.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, cybersecurity, architecture, or related technical disciplines.
• Experience implementing privacy, security, data protection, or governance controls.