Vacancy
Data Protection Engineer, Shared Sight
Build and test the systems that keep Shared Sight donors anonymous and their data safe, and make deletion requests work every time.
- Office
- Chiba
- Salary
- ¥9.6 million to ¥12.6 million a year (Grade 6)
- Contract
- Permanent, full time
- Closes
- , 23:59 local time
The job
The team
Shared Sight is run from the Chiba Centre for Visual Science by a team of fourteen led by Dr Kaji Aoi. The programme is overseen by an independent data ethics board and the board’s Data and Ethics Committee.
What you will do
- Maintain and test the anonymisation pipeline, including the on-device blurring of other people specified in KF-OS 2.
- Make sure that deletion requests remove a donor’s data from every copy, including backups, within thirty days.
- Support the data access committee with technical assessments of research applications.
- Work with external auditors.
What we are looking for
- Experience in privacy engineering, security or large-scale data systems. Experience with storage systems holding billions of records is essential.
- Familiarity with de-identification methods and their limits.
- Business-level Japanese or English, and a willingness to work in both.
How to apply
Send a CV and a letter of no more than two pages, saying why you want the job and what you would bring to it, to careers@kiroshi.org with the job title in the subject line. We reply to every application. If you need the details in another format or any adjustment to the process, write to the same address.