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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