Meta
Data Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (Safety)
$210K–$281K
Menlo Park, CA · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years in product data science, applied analytics, or quantitative research; 12+ years with data querying and scripting languages and statistical or mathematical software.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Build statistical measurement, evaluation, and monitoring systems to detect safety risks and assess safeguards for Meta’s AI models, working across research, engineering, product, policy, and legal.
What you'll do
- Build telemetry and measurement frameworks to detect and monitor policy violations and emerging harms.
- Design scalable model evaluations and assess safeguards through offline and online testing, including human-in-the-loop and active learning.
- Run experiments and build signals, pipelines, and dashboards to evaluate mitigations and support safety interventions.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 12+ years of experience in product data science, applied analytics, or quantitative research, including leading complex analytical workstreams as an individual contributor.
- 12+ years of experience with data querying and scripting languages and statistical or mathematical software for large-scale data analysis.
- Experience with advanced statistical methods, product experimentation, cross-functional stakeholder influence, and responsible AI practices.
Nice to have
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in a quantitative field.
- Experience in frontier AI products or risks, or in Trust & Safety, Fraud/Risk/Security, model evaluations, threat modeling, actor telemetry, or human-in-the-loop review systems.
Pay
$210,000/year to $281,000/year USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, R
AI focus
Measure and mitigate AI model safety risks; scale model evaluations and safeguards; use AI tools to accelerate or redesign analytical workflows with responsible validation; develop AI skills such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration.
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