Meta

Security Engineer, Trust & Safety - Applied AI

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1 day ago
Washington, DC, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$154k - $217k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Identify and solve ambiguous Trust & Safety problems involving online abuse and adversarial behavior, driving solutions across multiple teams.
  • Architect Trust & Safety capabilities and evaluation infrastructure for AI-driven solutions at Meta scale.
  • Lead methodologies for abuse scenarios involving adaptive adversaries, campaign-scale abuse, policy interpretation, and age-aware boundaries.
  • Translate Trust & Safety expertise into systematic and scalable AI improvement capabilities.
  • Drive cross-organizational partnerships and influence technical direction at the intersection of Trust & Safety and AI.
  • Own technically complex workstreams while enabling others to execute the broader solution.
  • Mentor engineers, build community, and promote Trust & Safety engineering practices.
  • Share findings through internal publications, knowledge sharing, and broader community contributions.

Requirements

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience; alternatively, a PhD plus two years of hands-on engineering experience.
  • At least five years of hands-on engineering experience in Trust & Safety, integrity, fraud and abuse, or security investigations.
  • Demonstrated expertise in at least one abuse domain, such as child safety, violent extremism, fraud and scams, coordinated inauthentic behavior, or content policy enforcement.
  • Experience building detection, enforcement, or evaluation systems in an abuse domain and operating or investigating within that domain.
  • Experience analyzing large-scale data, including relational databases and SQL, to identify adversarial behavior patterns and quantify trends.
  • Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats and online threat actors.
  • Coding experience in PHP, Python, Java, or a similar language.
  • Preferred experience with prompt or context engineering, agent orchestration, campaign-level investigation, responsible AI, adversarial testing, enforcement guidelines, age assurance, classifier development, AI workflow optimization, red-teaming, or evaluation design.
  • Preferred contributions to the Trust & Safety or security community through research, tools, presentations, or publications.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary of $154,000/year to $217,000/year, plus bonus, equity, and benefits.

Tech Stack

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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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