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). The Privacy by Design Engineer designs, implements, and operationalizes privacy controls that embed privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance into enterprise data platforms, analytics solutions, AI systems, digital products, and vehicle technologies. The role serves as a technical practitioner within a dedicated Privacy Engineering function, ensuring privacy requirements are incorporated early, consistently, and at scale throughout the software development lifecycle. The engineer collaborates closely with Legal, Privacy, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Product, and Vehicle Engineering teams to translate regulatory obligations, corporate policies, and privacy risk requirements into practical, reusable technical controls and engineering solutions. This role focuses on building privacy capabilities that enable the compliant use of personal, sensitive, and regulated data while minimizing risk, improving audit readiness, and supporting innovation. Vehicle Data Scope: This role includes responsibility for privacy‑by‑design implementations involving vehicle‑generated data and vehicle software systems. The engineer partners with vehicle engineering, embedded software, connected vehicle, and systems engineering teams to ensure privacy requirements are incorporated throughout vehicle development processes, including designing privacy controls for vehicle identifiers, telemetry, diagnostics, customer data, sensor data, connected services, and downstream data ecosystems. The role supports the complete vehicle data lifecycle—from in‑vehicle data generation and collection through cloud ingestion, analytics, AI processing, data sharing, retention, and disposal—ensuring privacy protections are engineered into