AIML - Regulatory Engineering Lead, Evaluation

Apple • New York, NY

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About The Position

Imagine what you could do here. At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming great
products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Bring passion and
dedication to your job, and there's no telling what you could accomplish. The
AIML Privacy and Regulatory Compliance (PaRC) team leads privacy and regulatory
compliance across AIML, partnering closely with Privacy Engineering, Privacy
Legal, Competition Legal, Government Affairs, and various regulatory groups.
This team influences the direction of our software features, models, and
platforms across the company, balancing the tradeoffs involved in creating
successful features that meet Apple's high customer expectations for both
quality and privacy. This team also leads readiness efforts across AIML to meet
new regulatory & other compliance requirements, while also exploring how to
integrate requirements into infrastructure and processes to ensure continued
compliance. Lastly, this team will build, advocate for, and/or improve
infrastructure, processes, and programs to improve on AIMLs overall privacy
narrative and compliance efforts. The PaRC team is looking for a Regulatory
Engineering Lead with strong knowledge of privacy regulations and standards,
technical curiosity and strong understanding of project and product management
cycles.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working in privacy, government affairs, and/or AI.
• Experience leading large, complex and ambiguous cross-functional software projects.
• Proven ability to work independently (including interacting with senior leaders) with little or no supervision.
• Strong understanding of privacy, competition, and AI regulations such as CCPA, GDPR, DMA, EU AI Act, etc.
• Experience conducting compliance assessments, audits, and risk assessments.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in engineering, privacy, policy or AI.
• Strong written and presentation skills, able to communicate effectively with both engineers and lawyers, and to senior leaders, including Senior Vice Presidents.
• Experience in compliance, public policy, data privacy, or machine learning, and in working with engineers and lawyers.
• Superb problem-solving, organizational, communication and reporting skills.
• Proven ability to ramp up quickly on new technologies.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced dynamic environment and work on multiple unrelated topics in any given week.
• Ability to develop relationships and work effectively with different teams at all levels and across functions relative to technical, policy, and business concerns.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and drive issues to resolution while maintaining a high level of efficiency.
• Demonstrated track record of dealing with ambiguity and complexity in achieving and sustaining compliance across technologies at scale.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with legal and privacy teams across Apple regarding applicable privacy, trust, and competition laws, regulations and policies impacting AIML.
• Participate in the development of new Apple policies and implement relevant processes and procedures to meet or otherwise comply with laws, regulations and policies.
• Identify gaps and develop remediation plan to comply with new laws, regulations and policies.
• Translate legal requirements into implementation requirements and collaborate with engineering teams across Apple to ensure compliance.
• Serve as the lead and source of truth for regulatory requirements within Apple's AIML organization, and will collaborate both internally with engineering teams, EPMs, lawyers and policy teams and externally with regulators and standards bodies.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in translating regulatory frameworks and requirements into actionable readiness plans.
• Ensure data practices (usage, retention, collection, etc.), governance, and privacy policies are updated to meet new requirements.
• Help ensure new features meet these requirements, while working closely with EPM and other teams to update processes that “bake in” the new requirements.
• Responsible for supporting dozens of key, ongoing regulatory projects including preparation of regulatory materials, management of documentation, creation of presentations, and coordination of cross-functional activity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees