Meta

Security Engineer - Applied AI

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2 days ago
Menlo Park, CA, USASenior
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Base Salary

$184k - $257k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Identify and solve ambiguous security, trust, or safety problems with impact across multiple teams.
  • Architect scalable security systems and AI-driven security capabilities and drive platform-level technical decisions.
  • Lead adversarial research, threat intelligence, detection, response, or investigation methodologies augmented by AI.
  • Define scalable methodologies for translating security expertise into improved AI capabilities.
  • Set security engineering quality standards, processes, workflows, and automation practices across teams.
  • Drive cross-organizational partnerships and influence technical direction at the intersection of security and AI.
  • Own technically complex workstreams, mentor engineers, build community, and communicate updates to leadership.
  • Share findings through internal publications, knowledge sharing, and contributions to the broader security community.

Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of hands-on security engineering experience in areas such as detection engineering, threat intelligence, incident response, cloud security, adversary simulation, offensive security, mobile or platform security, digital forensics, or trust and safety.
  • Deep expertise in attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures, with the ability to advance the state of the art.
  • Coding proficiency with experience in Python or Rust.
  • Experience architecting security systems or programs that operate at scale and influence how others build.
  • Ability to define and drive complex, ambiguous problem spaces with group-level impact.
  • Experience driving alignment and resolution across multiple teams and cross-functional partners.
  • Preferred experience includes supply chain security, mobile platform security, network protocol security, AI/ML security, cloud-native defense, AI model improvement, responsible AI, forensic investigation, Trust & Safety investigations, adversary simulation, and security community contributions.

Benefits

  • Base salary of $184,000/year to $257,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

Categories

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About Meta

10,000+ employees

Meta builds social platforms and communication apps—including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger—and develops AR/VR hardware and software such as Quest to power immersive computing. It monetizes primarily through advertising tools for businesses, with additional revenue from devices and services, and operates a massive global infrastructure. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, Meta Platforms, Inc. is a public company traded on Nasdaq under the ticker META.

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