Security Engineering Manager, Applied AI

Meta; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

Meta seeks a Security Engineering Manager in its Applied AI organization to lead a team of domain experts across security, privacy, integrity and trust and safety. You’ll balance team health with delivering high-quality expert signals and contribute technically to stay credible in the space.

The role emphasizes people development, cross-functional collaboration with model researchers, and incubating research initiatives while guiding workloads to high-impact workstreams within an applied

Qualifications

• 8+ years in security, privacy, integrity, trust and safety or related field with hands-on management.
• 4+ years in people management and organizational leadership.
• Deep technical depth in at least one domain (security/privacy/integrity/trust).
• Proficiency in coding with Python, Go, C/C++ or shell scripting.
• Experience leveraging AI tools to redesign workflows and drive impact.
• Ability to lead teams through complex, ambiguous problems where roadmap is not defined.

Responsibilities

• Support, develop, and grow a team of engineers across security, privacy, integrity, and trust and safety.
• Own people development end to end: 1:1s, growth planning, performance management.
• Hold accountability for the expert technical signal your team produces and prioritize gaps.
• Connect team strengths to the right workstreams and projects.
• Provide technical direction within the domain and debug issues with leads.
• Maintain direct technical contribution to keep domain judgment current.
• Initiate or advise incubated research projects and internal engagements.
• Collaborate with partner engineering managers and model researchers for successful workstreams.
• Grow individual contributors toward the next level through coaching and opportunities.
• Contribute to recruiting, organizational health and company-wide programs.

Skills

People management

Ambiguity handling

Team leadership

AI tooling usage

Tools

Python

Go

C/C++

Shell scripting

Job description

Meta is seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead a team of domain experts in our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. The team spans security, privacy, and trust and safety, and its mandate is to solve hard, real-world problems in those domains and turn the expert reasoning behind those solutions into the signal that improves what AI systems are capable of. Improved models ship back to the engineering and operations teams who do this work at Meta, so your team's output compounds: it raises the capability of both the models and the practitioners who depend on them. As a manager here you are accountable for two things at once. The first is your team: health, engagement, growth, and performance for a group of experienced practitioners. The second is the technical output: the volume, quality, and complexity of the expert signal your team produces, prioritized against the capability gaps that matter most. You will also keep a hand in the work itself, because in this environment credibility with your team comes from current domain judgment rather than from past experience. This is an applied research environment at an early stage. The problems are real and high priority, the road is not fully paved, and problem selection sits with the domain experts rather than being handed down. It is a strong fit for a manager who is energized by that and a poor fit for someone who wants a settled roadmap and a stable problem set.

Security Engineering Manager, Applied AI Responsibilities:

• Support, develop, and grow a team of experienced engineers across security, privacy, integrity, and trust and safety, with accountability for team health, engagement, and retention
• Own people development end to end: regular 1:1s, growth planning, feedback, performance management, and supporting people through team and organizational change
• Hold accountability for the volume, quality, and complexity of the expert technical signal your team produces, prioritizing against identified capability gaps in model performance
• Connect your team to the highest-impact work by mapping individual strengths, growth areas, and interests to the right workstreams and projects
• Provide technical direction and guidance within the domain, and debug issues in quality or output together with your technical leads
• Maintain direct technical contribution alongside your team so your domain judgment stays current and credible
• Initiate or advise incubated research projects and internal advisory engagements, including identifying gaps in technical assumptions and roadmaps
• Collaborate with partner engineering managers, technical leads, and model researchers to ensure workstreams operate successfully
• Grow individual contributors toward the next level through coaching and by identifying or creating the opportunities that make growth possible
• Contribute beyond your immediate team to recruiting, organizational health, internal technical forums, and company-wide engineering programs

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in security, privacy, integrity, trust and safety, or a related technical field, including hands‑on technical management
• 4+ years of experience in people management and organizational leadership
• Demonstrated technical depth in at least one of security, privacy, integrity, or trust and safety, sufficient to set direction and assess the quality of expert technical work
• Proficiency in coding with experience in languages such as Python, Go, C/C++, or shell scripting
• Experience leveraging AI tools to redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements
• Demonstrated ability to lead teams through complex, ambiguous problems where the roadmap is still being defined

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)
• Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)
• Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies
• Experience creating structured methodologies that scale domain expertise across teams
• Experience improving AI model performance through expert feedback, red‑teaming, or evaluation design
• Contributions to the security, privacy, or integrity community (original research, tools, conference presentations, publications)
• Demonstrated depth in adversarial analysis of software systems, abuse and integrity systems, or privacy and data protection engineering
• Experience designing benchmarks, evaluation harnesses, or other measurement for technical capability
• Experience growing individual contributors to the next level, with the growth attributable to your coaching

About Meta:

Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.

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$184,000/year to $257,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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