Engineering Analyst, Egregious Harms

Google; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Bonus target

Job summary

Google Ireland is seeking an Engineering Analyst within Trust & Safety to develop scalable AI safety solutions and to apply data science methods for improving protection measures. You will work with Product, Engineering, Policy, and Legal teams to fight abuse and protect users globally.

You will leverage ML techniques to evaluate models, deploy improvements, and coordinate multiple projects while communicating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, including trends, statistics, and insights.
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining scope, goals, deliverables.
• 2 years of experience utilizing Python and SQL for engineering problems.
• Experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (deployment, evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable safety solutions for AI products across Google using ML techniques.
• Apply statistical methods to examine protection measures and derive actionable insights.
• Compute statistics (e.g., precision, recall) and identify nuanced model performance issues.
• Lead multiple interdependent projects across teams to align objectives and results.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

Python

SQL

ML design

ML infrastructure

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
• 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• 2 years of experience utilizing Python and SQL to solve engineering problems.
• Experience with ML design and ML infrastructure (e.g., model deployment, model evaluation, data processing, debugging, fine tuning).

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with scripting language, machine learning tools, techniques and systems (including prompt engineering and fine-tuning, Large Language Model (LLMs)).
• Knowledge of current abuse techniques and practices with the ability to extract, manipulate, and apply machine learning techniques to high volumes of critical, product-related data.
• Ability to work with a variety of engineering stakeholders to gather requirements, explain models, and iterate to make improvements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and ability to describe technical implementations or analyses to a non-technical audience in an effective manner.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention-to-detail in an ever-changing environment.

About The Job

Trust & Safety team members are tasked with identifying and taking on the biggest problems that challenge the safety and integrity of our products. They use technical know-how, excellent problem-solving skills, user insights, and proactive communication to protect users and our partners from abuse across Google products like Search, Maps, Gmail, and Google Ads. On this team, you're a big-picture thinker and strategic team-player with a passion for doing what’s right. You work globally and cross-functionally with Google engineers and product managers to identify and fight abuse and fraud cases at Google speed - with urgency. And you take pride in knowing that every day you are working hard to promote trust in Google and ensuring the highest levels of user safety.

As an Engineering Analyst within the Trust and Safety team, you will be part of a global team that ensures the seamless detection and enforcement of some of the most egregious online harms (e.g., child sexual abuse materials and non-consensual intimate imagery) through close partnerships with Product, Engineering, Policy, and Legal, you will leverage your technical acumen to design and develop novel solutions to further Google’s ability to fight this abuse worldwide.

This role will be exposed to graphic, controversial, or upsetting content.

At Google we work hard to earn our users’ trust every day. Trust & Safety is Google’s team of abuse fighting and user trust experts working daily to make the internet a safer place. We partner with teams across Google to deliver bold solutions in abuse areas such as malware, spam and account hijacking. A team of Analysts, Policy Specialists, Engineers, and Program Managers, we work to reduce risk and fight abuse across all of Google’s products, protecting our users, advertisers, and publishers across the globe in over 40 languages.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Ireland: €90000 - €92000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Develop scalable safety solutions for AI products across Google by leveraging advanced machine learning and AI techniques.
• Apply statistical and data science methods to thoroughly examine Google's protection measures, uncover potential shortcomings, and develop actionable insights for continuous security enhancement.
• Compute statistics (e.g., precision, recall) about the performance of technical models (ML systems, classifiers, Large Language Model (LLMs)) and recognize nuanced, easily missed problems in the performance of these systems.
• Lead multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high-complexity and scope, work cross-functionally to ensure co-ordination and alignment on objectives and key results.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .