# Research Engineer, Privacy and Anonymization Source: https://realanalystjobs.com/job/research-engineer-privacy-and-anonymization-clera-5960cec7 Research Engineer, Privacy and Anonymization at Clera, an on-site role based in San Francisco, California, USA. Experience level: 2 Years. Pay stated in the posting: $130K to $225K. Posted on 12 November 2026, read from Clera's own careers page (Ashby), which RealAnalystJobs re-checks daily and removes the role when it closes. The posting says the employer sponsors visas or will consider it. Updated 15 November 2026. ## Key facts - Company: [Clera](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/clera) - Location: San Francisco, California, USA - Work mode: On-site - Pay stated in the posting: $130K to $225K - Posted: Nov 12, 2026 - Employment type: Full time - Experience level: 2 Years - Source: Clera's careers page (Ashby), re-checked daily Skills: [Python](https://realanalystjobs.com/skills/python) ## Visa sponsorship The posting says the employer sponsors visas or will consider it. Confirm with the employer before you apply. ## About this role About the Role Join a research and engineering team building privacy and anonymization systems for sensitive data used in AI training. You will help protect personal and confidential information while preserving the structure and utility of data for downstream workflows. What You'll Do • Build systems to detect personally identifiable information, quasi-identifiers, credentials, and other sensitive content, then select transformations suited to the data and its intended use. • Develop and benchmark detection methods that combine rules, statistical models, classifiers, and language models. • Build production pipelines that anonymize raw data before it reaches processing, training, evaluation, or synthetic data workflows. • Create evaluation frameworks for privacy risk and retained data utility, including recall-weighted metrics, leakage tests, and adversarial re-identification attempts. • Design robust systems that handle new data sources, schema drift, unusual formats, and sensitive information in unexpected fields. • Work with engineering, research, operations, and customers to turn privacy requirements into practical policies and safeguards. What We're Looking For • At least 2 years of experience building production data or machine learning systems in Python, with strong Python proficiency. • A technical education or equivalent technical background, and experience building end-to-end data processing pipelines. • Hands-on experience detecting, removing, or anonymizing PII while preserving useful characteristics, using information extraction, named-entity recognition, classification, or related methods. • Experience benchmarking detection methods and evaluating recall, precision, latency, cost, and downstream data utility. • Understanding of redaction, masking, pseudonymization, anonymization, and synthetic data generation. • Experience designing systems resilient to schema drift, unusual data formats, and processing edge cases. • Experience with privacy-enhancing technologies such as differential privacy, k-anonymity, secure aggregation, or format-preserving encryption is valuable. • Experience with high-throughput or low-latency inference, sensitive data in areas such as healthcare, finance, or security, or taking research systems into production is also valuable. Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $130,000 to $225,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is available. Location On-site in San Francisco, California, United States. Description from Clera's public careers feed, reproduced so you can read the role here. Apply on the company's own site; Real Analyst Jobs never submits anything for you. ## How to apply Open [this role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/research-engineer-privacy-and-anonymization-clera-5960cec7) and use Apply now there to reach the employer's application. The listing is re-checked against Clera's careers page daily and removed when it closes. ## Clera Analyst roles on Real Analyst Jobs. [More roles at Clera](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/clera) ## More like this - [Data analyst jobs in the USA](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs/data-analyst-jobs-in-usa) - [Analyst job market report](https://realanalystjobs.com/analyst-job-market) - [What analyst roles pay](https://realanalystjobs.com/blog/data-analyst-salaries) ## Sources and links - [This role on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/job/research-engineer-privacy-and-anonymization-clera-5960cec7) - [Clera on Real Analyst Jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/companies/clera) - [All analyst jobs](https://realanalystjobs.com/jobs)