2 months ago
Base Salary
$196k - $294k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze threat actor behavior and evolving abuse patterns across large, heterogeneous datasets.
- Research, prototype, and implement LLM-driven techniques for abuse detection, classification, and prevention.
- Design and develop production-ready systems that detect and disrupt abusive behavior across the Vercel platform.
- Build, maintain, and fine-tune internal tools, datasets, and evaluation pipelines for trust and safety workflows.
- Collaborate with security, product, and infrastructure teams to bring research ideas into stable, scalable production systems.
- Own systems end-to-end from initial research through production deployment and iteration.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in abuse prevention, trust and safety, or security engineering.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript and Python.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, including prompt engineering, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
- Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, including AWS.
- Strong understanding of real-world threat actor behavior and abuse tactics.
- Experience owning systems through research, production deployment, and iteration.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package including equity, with a San Francisco base pay range of $196,000-$294,000.
- Inclusive healthcare package.
- Mentorship and support for attending professional events.
- Flexible time off.
- Company-provided equipment and a work-from-home budget.
- Hybrid work with Monday, Tuesday, and Friday in-office anchor days for employees within the commuting distance of SF, NY, London, or Berlin offices; fully remote otherwise.
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About Vercel
Vercel builds a frontend cloud platform for developing, previewing, and deploying web applications, with strong support for React and Next.js. It sells usage-based and enterprise plans to developers and companies, and it stewards the open-source Next.js framework alongside tools like the AI SDK. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, the privately held company focuses on speeding up modern web development and delivery.