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Security Engineer - Applied AI

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1 day ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Identify and solve ambiguous security, trust, and safety problems with organization-wide impact.
  • Architect scalable security systems and AI-driven capabilities and drive platform-level technical decisions.
  • Lead adversarial research, threat intelligence, detection, response, and investigation methodologies augmented by AI.
  • Develop systematic methods for translating security expertise into scalable AI capabilities and improving model performance.
  • Establish security engineering quality standards, processes, workflows, and automation across teams.
  • Drive cross-organizational partnerships and influence technical direction at Meta scale.
  • 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

  • A B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 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.
  • Proficiency in coding with experience in Python or Rust.
  • Experience architecting security systems or programs that operate at scale and influence how others build.
  • Experience defining and driving complex, ambiguous problem spaces with group-level impact and aligning multiple teams and cross-functional partners.
  • Preferred experience with responsible and ethical AI practices, AI model improvement, red teaming, evaluation design, cloud security operations, trust and safety investigations, forensic investigation, adversary simulation, and AI/ML security.
  • Preferred contributions to the security community through original research, tools, conference presentations, or publications.
  • Preferred experience with prompt or context engineering, agent orchestration, AI workflow optimization, supply chain security, mobile platform security, or network protocol security.

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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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