Privacy Engineer

<p><strong>About Hark</strong></p> <p>Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.</p> <p>We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.</p> <p>To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.</p> <p><strong>About the Role&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Privacy Engineer) to own privacy infrastructure at Hark. You'll design and build the systems that handle data subject access requests (DSARs), deletion pipelines, de-identification, and consent — and you'll work directly with legal and engineering to translate regulatory requirements into durable technical architecture.</p> <p>This position is focused on technical execution rather than policy. Your primary responsibilities will involve software development, system architecture, and the management of live production infrastructure.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design and build DSAR, deletion, and data retention pipelines across Hark's services.</li> <li>Architect de-identification and tokenization systems for sensitive data (PII, conversation content).</li> <li>Partner with legal and compliance to translate CCPA, GDPR, and other regulatory requirements into technical implementations.</li> <li>Embed privacy-by-design principles into Hark's data infrastructure and product development process.</li> <li>Own privacy incident response and work cross-functionally to resolve data handling issues.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>4–8 years of software engineering experience with a meaningful focus on privacy infrastructure.</li> <li>Hands-on experience building deletion, DSAR, or consent pipelines in production.</li> <li>Comfort working at the intersection of engineering and legal/regulatory constraints — you can read a regulation and translate it into an architecture.</li> <li>Familiarity with PII tokenization, de-identification, or data vaulting (Skyflow or similar).</li> <li>Strong backend engineering fundamentals.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience at a privacy-infra company (Transcend, DataGrail, Securiti, Skyflow, Evervault).</li> <li>Background building privacy systems at scale (Meta, Google, Uber, Airbnb, DoorDash).</li> <li>Familiarity with synthetic data or de-identification tooling (Gretel, Tonic.ai).</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Compensation</strong></h3> <p>The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $300,000 annually.</p> <p>The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.</p>