Engineering Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety

Google Inc.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking an Engineering Analyst for the YouTube Trust and Safety team to identify and remove disruptive content and users quickly in a high-volume global environment.

You will analyze large-scale data, help scale review systems, coach peers, and communicate technical results with stakeholders to drive trust and safety improvements. Collaboration with global teams will shape scalable quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years in data analysis, trend identification, and deriving insights.
• 2 years in project management, defining scope, goals and deliverables.
• Familiarity with SQL, R, Python, or C++.
• Experience with machine learning systems.
• Ability to collect, manage and synthesize large datasets.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform fraud and spam investigations using diverse data sources.
• Design and refine prompts for LLMs to improve abuse detection.
• Apply statistical methods to large datasets to understand abuse impact.
• Communicate highly technical results and methods to stakeholders.
• Maintain quality metrics and scalable training solutions for emergent workflows.

Skills

Data analysis

Project management

SQL

R

Python

C++

Machine learning

Data mining

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Engineering Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety

Mid

Experience driving progress, solving problems, and mentoring more junior team members; deeper expertise and applied knowledge within relevant area.

• 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.

Preferred qualifications:

• 2 years of experience or familiarity with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.
• 2 years of experience or familiarity with machine learning systems.
• Experience creating opportunities to innovate, conceptualize and complete while working with global teams. Experience collecting, managing and synthesizing large datasets and information from disparate sources, statistical modeling, data mining and data analysis.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

About the job

As an Engineering Analyst on the YouTube Trust and Safety team, you will be directly responsible for ensuring that we effectively identify and remove disruptive content and users as quickly as possible, in an environment where hundreds of hours of new content is uploaded every minute, globally. You will be passionate about technologies and have experience with analyzing large scale data and scaled systems of review. You will thrive in a fast, dynamic, demanding environment where no two days are ever the same. You will be a key contributor to the strategy for reducing network badness on YouTube. You will be an independent, critical thinker with sound metrics judgment who has a passion for coaching others, solving technological tests and setting scalable standards. You will balance the short-term requirements we face while demonstrating the ability to see the big picture and make quantitatively based long-term recommendations accordingly. You may require on-call work at weekends on a rotational basis. You will also be exposed to graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive video content during team escalations in line with YouTube’s Community Guidelines. At YouTube, we believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share, and build community through our stories. We work together to give everyone the power to share their story, explore what they love, and connect with one another in the process. Working at the intersection of cutting‑edge technology and boundless creativity, we move at the speed of culture with a shared goal to show people the world. We explore new ideas, solve real problems, and have fun — and we do it all together.

Responsibilities

• Perform fraud and spam investigations using various data sources, identify product vulnerabilities and drive anti-abuse experiments to prevent abuse. Work with engineers and interact cross-functionally with stakeholders to improve workflows via process improvements, automation and anti-abuse system creation.
• Design and refine prompts for LLMs to improve their accuracy in identifying and classifying abusive content and behavior.
• Apply advanced statistical methods to large complex datasets to understand the impact of abuse to the YouTube ecosystem. Contribute strategy and development of new workflows against additional known vectors of abuse.
• Learn complex and technical concepts and systems and deliver meaningful results using them. Communicate highly technical results and methods.
• Maintain, foster and promote quality by providing regular feedback metrics to the Global team. Manage technological solutions for streamlining quality assurance and produce scalable training solutions to emergent workflows.

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