Security & Applied AI Analyst, Chrome Extensions

Socket.dev; Kirkland (WA); On-site; USD 132,000 - 189,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Bonus target 15%

Benefits

Job summary

Google is seeking a Security and Applied AI Analyst for the Chrome Web Store and Extensions Security team. The role focuses on technical investigations, threat identification, and scalable protection mechanisms.

You'll collaborate with engineering and product teams to mitigate risks, deploy AI-driven solutions, and enhance detection signals across Google's browser ecosystem. Strong analytical and cross-functional skills are essential.

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 quantitative and qualitative analysis, using languages like SQL and Python.

Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations to catch harmful and abusive behavior and actors, enforce our product policies, learning abuse patterns, and establishing ground truth data to train automated systems.
• Reverse engineer potentially harmful extensions (written in JavaScript) to understand their operations and impact on the Chrome ecosystem.
• Design AI-powered and automated solutions that enable scalable identification of malware, spam, and other harmful extensions.
• Collaborate with other teams to develop and deploy new detection methods and signals, train and mentor a large team of security reviewers.
• Enhance operational workflows via AI integration, process improvements, and identifying automation opportunities.

Skills

Data analysis

Trend identification

Insight extraction

Quantitative analysis

Qualitative analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

SQL

Python

JavaScript

Job description

Google is seeking a Security and Applied AI Analyst for the Chrome Web Store and Extensions Security team. The role focuses on technical investigations, threat identification, and scalable protection mechanisms.

You'll collaborate with engineering and product teams to mitigate risks, deploy AI-driven solutions, and enhance detection signals across Google's browser ecosystem. Strong analytical and cross-functional skills are essential.