Differential Privacy Research Engineer

4 weeks ago


Portland, Oregon, United States Galois Full time
About Galois

Galois is a leading organization in computer science, tackling the hardest problems to assure trust in critical systems. Our mission is to protect the privacy and integrity of information in the real world through the application of formal analysis techniques.

We are a community of researchers, engineers, and operations people dedicated to creating trustworthiness in critical systems. Our organization is highly collaborative, and we pursue working from first principles, transparency, building deep trust, learning, and innovating.

We are employee-owned and aspire to provide employees with a sense of freedom to pursue passions in and out of work. Our unique organizational structure enables us to adapt to the needs of innovative projects.

As a Research Engineer at Galois, you will design and develop advanced technologies for safety- and security-critical systems, networks, data science, and their applications.

About This Role

Galois is hiring a Research Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on advancing the state of the art in data privacy and statistical methods, including applications of programming language technologies to software engineering problems.

Responsibilities
  • Leverage state-of-the-art approaches for implementing systems with formal data privacy guarantees, such as differential privacy.
  • Design and implement new algorithms for data privacy and empirical evaluation of privacy protection guarantees.
  • Review and evaluate software implementing or applying formal privacy techniques.
  • Develop embedded DSLs for data science domains that enforce data privacy properties by construction.
  • Engage with clients to refine their needs and suggest means to meet those needs.
  • Construct high-level architectural descriptions of software systems and design prototypes with assurance in mind.
  • Extend design prototypes with care taken to ensure robustness and ease of use.
  • Construct and conduct system, unit, and regression tests, and conduct semi-formal validation and verification.
  • Conduct speculative research and development of cutting-edge technology and incorporate it into demonstration prototypes.
  • Develop tools to be used within Galois and library code to be shared among projects.
Key Qualifications
  • A minimum of a Master's degree in computer science or equivalent is required.
  • Required technical expertise includes formal definitions and variations of differential privacy, design and application of differentially private algorithms, and programming language techniques for differential privacy.
  • Required general skills include strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, and the ability to work well with customers.
Security and Citizenship Requirements
  • U.S. Citizenship is required.
  • The candidate may be subject to a background investigation and will need to meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information.
  • The candidate must not require a U.S. government export license to authorize access to export-controlled technology and software required to perform this role.


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