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Principal Engineer, Safeguards

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3 days ago
Sunnyvale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$307k - $427k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, prototype, and ship safety defenses for AI-driven CBRN, cyber, agentic, and fraud threats using classifiers, runtime policy enforcement, and ML systems.
  • Own the technical vision and reference architecture for safeguarding agentic systems across tool use, planning, memory, and multi-agent interactions.
  • Lead threat modeling for complex and evolving attack surfaces and translate adversary behavior into engineering requirements and defenses.
  • Shape shared safety and security infrastructure that can be reused across AI products and workloads.
  • Work across teams to diagnose problems, recommend solutions, align on standards, conduct design reviews, mentor engineers, and raise the engineering bar.
  • Build data analysis, detection, and response capabilities to observe safety-relevant behavior at scale, measure efficacy, and respond to emerging threats.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of professional experience in engineering leadership or related technical roles.
  • Experience building and deploying classifiers and machine learning systems in production.
  • Experience with threat modeling for complex, evolving, and adversarial systems.
  • Experience securing agentic or autonomous AI systems involving tool use, planning, or multi-agent interactions.
  • Experience with agent platform technologies such as Vertex AI or Gemini Enterprise.
  • Experience making risk-based trade-offs, reducing complexity, and building defenses that measurably reduce risk.
  • Depth in adversarial ML, red-teaming, or abuse and fraud detection.
  • Strong ability to influence without authority and work effectively across teams.

Benefits

  • US base pay is listed at $307000-$427000, plus a 30% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
  • Benefits information is available through Google’s benefits program.

Tech Stack

Google Cloud
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About Google

10,000+ employees

Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.

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