Drimva

Meta

Security Engineer, Trust & Safety - Applied AI

$184K–$257K

Washington, DC +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 12, 2026

Location
Washington, DC
New York, NY
Experience
8+ years of hands-on engineering experience in Trust & Safety, integrity, fraud and abuse, or security investigations.
Education
B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.

About the job

Applies Trust & Safety expertise to build and evaluate AI capabilities for detecting and addressing online abuse and adversarial behavior at scale.

What you'll do

  • Architect Trust & Safety capabilities and evaluation infrastructure for AI-driven solutions.
  • Develop strategies and methodologies for abuse problems AI cannot yet reliably reason about, and improve models through expert input and evaluation.
  • Lead complex, cross-organizational work, mentor engineers, and share findings through publications and knowledge sharing.

What they ask for

  • B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 8+ years of hands-on engineering experience in Trust & Safety, integrity, fraud and abuse, or security investigations.
  • Deep expertise in at least one listed abuse domain, plus experience building detection, enforcement, or evaluation systems in an abuse domain.
  • Experience analyzing large-scale data, coding in PHP, Python, Java, or similar languages, and architecting systems or programs that operate at scale.

Nice to have

  • Experience adversarially testing conversational or agentic systems, developing abuse classifiers, or improving AI models through expert feedback, red-teaming, or evaluation design.
  • Experience with campaign-level investigation and attribution, age assurance, or contributions to the Trust & Safety or security community.

Pay

$184,000/year to $257,000/year USD base salary

Tools

SQL, PHP, Python, Java

AI focus

Uses AI tools and agents in Trust & Safety work; defines methods and evaluations to improve AI capabilities for abuse detection, policy interpretation, and adversarial testing; applies responsible and ethical AI practices.

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