Staff Privacy Engineer

About the Company: Tools for Humanity (TFH) designs and builds technology behind World. World is building a real human network designed to accelerate people in the age of AI. As bots and autonomous agents reshape the internet, people, institutions, and applications need a trusted way to confirm who is a real human while preserving privacy. The TFH and World tech stacks make this possible: the Orb verifies real, unique people, World ID proves it privately, and World App puts these capabilities, and more, in people’s hands. Together, they add a human layer to an AI-driven internet. World is already running at a global scale. More than 17 million people across 160 countries have verified with World ID, and more new Orb verifications take place each week. World App is already among the most used wallets globally. Developers are integrating World ID to build safer online experiences and create spaces where real people can participate, earn, and be recognized in ways AI simply can’t replicate. Founded in 2019, TFH has more than 400 people across hardware, software, AI, cryptography, mobile engineering, and global operations. Our teams come from OpenAI, Tesla, SpaceX, Apple, Google, Stripe, Meta, Coinbase, Palantir and MIT Media Lab. We’re backed by leading investors, including a16z, Khosla Ventures, Bain Capital Crypto, Blockchain Capital, Variant, Tiger Global, and Coinbase Ventures, as well as prominent operators and founders across fintech and AI. TFH and World have been featured on the cover of TIME Magazine, highlighted in Fast Company’s Next 5 in Fintech, and explored in a Bloomberg deep dive. The New York Times, Bankless and TechCrunch have all recognized our collective progress in identity, cryptography, AI, and global-scale hardware deployment. Our leadership is also named to the Time AI 100. Learn more about the newest product launches from our Liftoff event. About the Team: You’ll be a founding member of our dedicated Privacy Engineering team. About the role: This is a unique strategic opportunity to bridge the gap between technology and law, bringing technical expertise that ensures compliance in data protection, governance, and lifecycle management. This role will be pivotal in crafting and effectively communicating messaging on the Company’s privacy and security framework and ensuring that audiences of all levels (including Regulators) understand and support the Company’s mission. In this role you will: Acting as a technical advisor to legal and product teams, aligning business goals with privacy requirements. Serve as a trusted internal advisor, ensuring that product updates, technical implementations, and privacy representations remain aligned, both technically and legally, across the organization. Partner with Product and Privacy to drive regulatory engagement. Prepare and deliver technical briefings, demonstrations, and written materials that reflect privacy and data protection standards. If needed, act as technical subject matter expert in regulatory meetings, ensuring that regulators receive accurate, transparent, and technically grounded explanations of how our systems uphold privacy-by-design principles. Partner directly with product teams to design, implement, and validate privacy-by-design features within the World App, Orb, and related systems, ensuring that anonymization, encryption, data minimization and user-control mechanisms are embedded at the architectural level. Define and maintain canonical data flow maps and data inventories across all systems, and develop solutions for data mapping, governance, classification, and protection. Conduct threat modeling, privacy design reviews, and code-level assessments to ensure the highest privacy and security standards. Analyze, design and suggest product and protocol enhancements to help mitigate privacy vulnerabilities and prevent potential future privacy and security risks. Collaborate with privacy attorneys to ensure that our privacy notices, consents, policies, and regulatory submissions accurately describe how our technology functions in practice, including leading or supporting DPIAs and translating regulatory requirements into technical implementations. Work with Comms/Marketing to develop and maintain visual demonstratives, diagrams, videos, and animations that show, in regulator-friendly and user-friendly terms, the Company’s privacy architecture. Establish and enforce privacy engineering standards, patterns, and review processes About you: 5+ years of experience in privacy engineering or architecture. A strong foundation in systems engineering Fluency in a variety of languages and stacks - able to dig into a codebase and determine how it actually works in practice Strong conceptual understanding of classical and modern cryptographic functions including symmetric and public key cryptography, hash algorithms, and zero knowledge proofs. Have led or been a significant contributor to privacy and security projects, demonstrating a cross-functional collaboration skill set. Motivated by the opportunity to contribute your expertise to a project with a broad and positive mission. Strong critical thinking and leadership abilities, with a proven track record of driving initiatives forward effectively. Proven verbal and written communication skills and an ability to effectively present the Company’s position before stakeholders (including Data Protection Authorities). Experience working with global privacy and data protection frameworks (including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA), and engaging with regulators or supporting regulatory processes. By submitting your application, you consent to the processing and internal sharing of your CV within the company, in compliance with the GDPR. Pay transparency statement (for CA and NY based roles): The reasonably estimated salary for this role at TFH ranges from $276,000 - $325,000 , plus a competitive long term incentive package. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, TFH offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan and match, life insurance, flexible time off, commuter benefits, professional development stipend and much more! #J-18808-Ljbffr Tools-For-Humanity