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Meta

Security Engineer, Trust & Safety - Applied AI

$154K–$217K

Menlo Park, CA +2 · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026

Location
Menlo Park, CA
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Experience
5+ years of hands-on engineering experience; alternatively, PhD plus 2 years of hands-on engineering experience.
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience; alternatively, PhD plus 2 years of hands-on engineering experience.

About the job

Applies Trust & Safety expertise to improve AI capabilities and build systems and evaluations addressing online abuse and adversarial behavior.

What you'll do

  • Architect Trust & Safety capabilities and evaluation infrastructure for AI-driven solutions.
  • Develop methodologies to improve models on complex abuse problems, including campaign-scale abuse and policy interpretation.
  • Lead cross-organizational technical work, mentor engineers, and share findings through publications and community contributions.

What they ask for

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience; alternatively, PhD plus 2 years of hands-on engineering experience.
  • 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in Trust & Safety, integrity, fraud and abuse, or security investigations.
  • Demonstrated depth in at least one listed abuse domain and experience building detection, enforcement, or evaluation systems in an abuse domain.
  • Experience analyzing large-scale data, including relational databases and SQL, and coding in PHP, Python, Java, or a similar language.

Nice to have

  • Experience adversarially testing conversational or agentic systems, or improving AI model performance through expert feedback, red-teaming, or evaluation design.
  • Contributions to the Trust & Safety or security community, such as research, tools, presentations, or publications.

Pay

$154,000/year to $217,000/year (base salary); bonus + equity (amount not stated)

Tools

SQL, PHP, Python, Java

AI focus

Use AI tools and agents, design evaluations, and improve AI models’ ability to address Trust & Safety abuse problems; includes adversarial testing and responsible AI practices.

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First seen Oct 22, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)