AI-Driven Security Engineer

Meta; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 154,000 - 217,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. As a Security Engineer in AAI, you will apply deep domain expertise to solve hard, real-world security problems, building novel security capabilities, prototyping AI-powered defenses, and advancing the frontier of what AI systems can do in security.

Your work is AI-augmented from day one: you leverage AI tools and agents to accelerate your impact, and where the models fall short, your expertise

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS, cybersecurity, or related field.
• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering in multiple domains.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, C/C++, or shell scripting.

Responsibilities

• Apply deep security domain expertise to identify, scope, and solve complex security problems with multi-step reasoning.
• Build security products, tools, and capabilities with AI-driven solutions at Meta's scale.
• Design and execute adversarial research, threat intelligence analysis, detection engineering, or security investigations augmented by AI tools.
• Identify AI model gaps and contribute signals, evaluation, and feedback to improve security reasoning.

Skills

Security engineering

AI-driven security

Adversarial research

Threat intelligence

Detection engineering

Platform security

Model evaluation feedback

Cross-functional collaboration

End-to-end project execution

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Go

C/C++

Shell scripting

Job description

Meta is seeking a Security Engineer to join our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. As a Security Engineer in AAI, you will apply deep domain expertise to solve hard, real-world security problems, building novel security capabilities, prototyping AI-powered defenses, and advancing the frontier of what AI systems can do in security.

Your work is AI-augmented from day one: you leverage AI tools and agents to accelerate your impact, and where the models fall short, your expertise