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Meta

Security Engineer, Applied AI

$154K–$217K

Bellevue, WA +4 · Full-time · Posted Aug 4, 2026

Location
Bellevue, WA
Menlo Park, CA
Seattle, WA
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Experience
5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience in one or more listed domains.
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Applies security expertise and research to build AI-powered security tools, improve AI models’ security capabilities, and advance Meta’s security posture.

What you'll do

  • Build security products, tools, and AI-driven capabilities for real-world security challenges.
  • Conduct adversarial research, threat analysis, detection engineering, or investigation workflows augmented by AI tools and agents.
  • Evaluate and improve AI models’ security reasoning, and translate expert knowledge into reusable training signals and methodologies.

What they ask for

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on security engineering experience in one or more listed security domains.
  • Extensive knowledge of attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures.
  • Proficiency coding in languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or shell scripting, and experience building security systems, tools, or capabilities.

Nice to have

  • Experience improving AI model performance through expert feedback, red-teaming, or evaluation design.
  • Contributions to the security community, such as original research, tools, CTF design, presentations, publications, or vulnerability disclosures.

Pay

$154,000/year to $217,000/year USD base salary; bonus and equity amounts not stated

Tools

Python, Go, C/C++, shell scripting, AWS, GCP, Azure, iOS/Android

AI focus

Uses AI tools and agents in security workflows; prototypes AI-powered defenses; improves AI models’ security reasoning through expert feedback, evaluation, and training signals; develops AI-native security systems.

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