Tools for Humanity
AI, Technology, Software, Cryptography, Identity
StaffPrivacyEngineer
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“Staff Privacy Engineer at Tools for Humanity. Skills: Privacy engineering, Data protection, Cryptography, Regulatory compliance. 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”
Industry & Context.
Critical thinking; Mitigate privacy vulnerabilities; Prevent potential future privacy and security risks
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years of experience in privacy engineering or architecture, A 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, Conceptual understanding of classical and modern cryptographic functions including symmetric and public key cryptography, hash algorithms, and zero knowledge proofs, Experience working with global privacy and data protection frameworks (including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA), Proven verbal and written communication skills
Nice to Have
Have led or been a significant contributor to privacy and security projects, demonstrating a cross-functional collaboration skill set, Engaging with regulators or supporting regulatory processes
What You'll Do.
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
Prepare and deliver technical briefings
and written materials that reflect privacy and data protection standards
Act as technical subject matter expert in regulatory meetings
Partner directly with product teams to design
and validate privacy-by-design features within the World App
Define and maintain canonical data flow maps and data inventories across all systems
Develop solutions for data mapping
Conduct threat modeling
privacy design reviews
and code-level assessments
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
and regulatory submissions accurately describe how our technology functions in practice
Leading or supporting DPIAs and translating regulatory requirements into technical implementations
Work with Comms/Marketing to develop and maintain visual demonstratives
and animations that show the Company’s privacy architecture
Establish and enforce privacy engineering standards
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Acting as a technical advisor to legal and product teams; Partner with Product and Privacy to drive regulatory engagement; Partner directly with product teams; Collaborate with privacy attorneys; Work with Comms/Marketing
Communication Scope
Effectively present the Company’s position before stakeholders (including Data Protection Authorities); Crafting and effectively communicating messaging on the Company’s privacy and security framework; Ensuring that audiences of all levels (including Regulators) understand and support the Company’s mission; Prepare and deliver technical briefings, demonstrations, and written materials; Translate regulatory requirements into technical implementations; Develop and maintain visual demonstratives, diagrams, videos, and animations
Process & Methodology
Driving initiatives forward effectively
Full Job Description
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 https://time.com/7288387/sam-altman-orb-tools-for-humanity/, highlighted in Fast Company’s https://www.fastcompany.com/91411606/fintech-blockchain-next-big-things-in-tech-2025 Next 5 in Fintech, and explored in a Bloomberg deep dive https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-08-12/how-worldcoin-is-building-digital-ids-to-combat-the-ai-apocalypse. The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/technology/world-eye-scanning-crypto-orbs-launch-in-us.html, Ba
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