Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, Egregious Harms

Google; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 126,000 - 181,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby Bonding Leave

13 paid holidays

Job summary

Google seeks an Engineering Analyst for the Trust and Safety team in Washington, DC. The role focuses on detecting egregious harms across products, using data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen detection and enforcement systems.

You will work with Product, Engineering, Policy, and Legal teams to combat abuse worldwide. As part of a global team, you will analyze model performance and threats while leveraging technical acumen to help protect users and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 2 years of experience in data analysis, identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from data.
• Experience with SQL or Python.

Responsibilities

• Perform data analyses to derive insights that help identify emerging threats and fight abuse across our products.
• Identify opportunities to improve detection/enforcement systems and automate processes.
• Lead multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity with cross-functional alignment on objectives and key results.
• Analyze statistics (precision, recall) of technical models (ML systems, classifiers, LLMs) and detect nuanced issues in model performance.
• Review or be exposed to sensitive or graphic content as part of core role.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Python

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree in a quantitative discipline

Job description

Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, Egregious Harms

Google

Washington D.C., DC, USA

Mid

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

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

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.
• Experience with one or more of the following languages: SQL or Python.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
• Experience with scripting language, machine learning tools, techniques and systems (including large language models).
• Knowledge of current abuse techniques and practices.
• Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders to gather requirements, explain models, and iterate to make improvements.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
• Excellent communication with an ability to describe technical implementations or analyses to a non-tech audience.

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, non-consensual intimate imagery, violent extremism). 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.

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.

The US base salary range for this full‑time position is $126,000-$181,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Perform data analyses to derive insights that help identify emerging threats and fight abuse across our products.
• Identify opportunities for the improvement of Google’s detection and enforcement systems as well as for automation.
• Lead multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Work cross‑functionally to ensure coordination and alignment on objectives and key results.
• Analyze statistics (e.g., precision, recall) about the performance of technical models (ML systems, classifiers, LLMs) and recognize nuanced, easily missed problems in the performance of these systems.
• Review or be exposed to sensitive or graphic content as part of core role.

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