Meta

Security Engineer, Applied AI

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2 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Apply deep security expertise to solve complex security problems requiring novel approaches and expert judgment.
  • Build security products, tools, and AI-driven capabilities for real-world security challenges.
  • Design and execute adversary research, threat analysis, detection engineering, and investigation workflows.
  • Improve AI security reasoning through expert-generated signals, evaluations, and feedback.
  • Develop reusable security methodologies and partner with engineering, product, and research teams to integrate innovations into production AI systems.
  • Drive complex security initiatives and share findings through internal publications and the broader security community.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience; alternatively, a PhD plus two years of hands-on security engineering experience.
  • At least five years of hands-on security engineering experience in areas such as detection engineering, threat intelligence, incident response, cloud security, adversary simulation, offensive security, or digital forensics.
  • Extensive knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, Go, C, C++, or shell scripting.
  • Experience engineering security systems, tools, or capabilities and operating independently on complex, ambiguous challenges.
  • Preferred experience includes AI tools and agents, prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration, responsible AI, adversary simulation, cloud security, forensic investigation, supply chain security, mobile or network protocol security, and AI/agent security.
  • Preferred candidates may have security community contributions or experience improving AI models through expert feedback, red-teaming, or evaluation design.
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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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