Security Engineer, Trust & Safety - Applied AI

Meta; Menlo Park, Washington, New York (CA, District of Columbia, NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta seeks Security Engineers with Trust & Safety expertise to advance AI-augmented safety across child safety, fraud, exploitation, and coordinated inauthentic behavior. You will leverage AI tools and expert judgment to build reliable detection and enforcement systems and investigate high-impact threats.

Candidates bring 5+ years in Trust & Safety or security investigations and hands-on engineering experience, with strengths in coding (PHP/Python/Java) and data analysis.

Qualifications

• B.S./M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• OR PhD + 2 years of hands-on engineering experience
• Demonstrated depth in at least one abuse domain: child safety, fraud and scams, violent extremism, or coordinated inauthentic behavior
• Experience building detection or evaluation systems in an abuse domain
• Experience analyzing large-scale data and SQL to identify patterns of adversarial behavior
• Experience investigating high-impact online threats and actors
• Experience coding in PHP, Python, or Java
• Demonstrated AI skill development and staying current with emerging AI technologies

Responsibilities

• Apply domain expertise in online abuse and adversarial behavior across child safety, exploitation, fraud, extortion, violence, and coordinated inauthentic behavior
• Develop and improve detection, enforcement, or evaluation systems in abuse domains
• Analyze large-scale data to identify adversarial patterns and trends
• Investigate high-impact threats and threat actors and translate findings into policy implementations
• Collaborate with Trust & Safety teams and AI researchers to advance AI-assisted safety measures
• Demonstrate ongoing AI skill development (prompt engineering, agent orchestration) and responsible AI practices

Skills

SQL analytics

PHP/Python/Java

AI tooling

Adversarial testing

Threat investigation

Policy enforcement

Education

B.S./M.S. in CS/Cybersecurity

PhD + 2 years experience

5+ years in Trust & Safety/security investigations

Job description

Meta is seeking Security Engineers with Trust & Safety expertise to join our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. You will apply deep domain expertise in online abuse and adversarial behavior, across areas such as child safety, human exploitation, fraud and scams, violent extremism, and coordinated inauthentic behavior, to advance what AI systems can do in Trust & Safety. 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 directly drives their improvement.

The problems here are the ones where abuse comes from behavior, context, and scale rather than a software defect: a model that overtrusts an asserted authorization, an agent pressured into a policy exception, a campaign in which every artifact looks benign on its own. Models recognize public benchmarks far more readily than internal ones, so building evaluations that hold up is part of the engineering process.

This role is for Trust & Safety practitioners who want to operate at the intersection of deep domain expertise and frontier AI, not just applying AI to protect from and prevent adversarial behavior, but shaping what it is capable of.

• B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• OR PhD + 2 years of hands-on engineering experience 5+ years of hands-on engineering experience in Trust & Safety, integrity, fraud and abuse, or security investigations
• Demonstrated depth in at least one abuse domain: child safety and youth protection, dangerous organizations and violent extremism, fraud and scams, coordinated inauthentic behavior and information operations, or content policy enforcement
• Experience building detection, enforcement or evaluation systems in an abuse domain, in addition to operating or investigating within one
• Experience analyzing and interpreting large-scale data, including relational databases and SQL, to identify patterns of adversarial behavior and quantify trends
• Experience investigating and acting on high-impact threats and online threat actors
• Experience coding in at least one of the following or similar languages: PHP, Python, or Java
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience with campaign-level investigation and attribution of coordinated adversary networks
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Experience adversarially testing conversational or agentic systems: jailbreaks, social engineering, prompt injection, policy-exception pressure
• Experience authoring or interpreting enforcement guidelines at scale, including coded terminology and evolving slang
• Experience with age assurance and age-signal inference, including calibrated confidence and mode switching
• Contributions to the Trust & Safety or security community (original research, tools, conference presentations, publications)
• Experience developing and evaluating classifiers for abuse, fraud, or policy enforcement
• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience improving AI model performance through expert feedback, red-teaming, or evaluation design