Senior Engineering Analyst, Content Adversarial Red Team

Google; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 159,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

Sick time

Maternity leave

Baby bonding leave

Holidays

Job summary

Google is seeking a data analytics and trust & safety professional to join the Content Adversarial Red Team (CART). You will identify and analyze content abuse risks, design red teaming approaches, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, Research, and Policy teams to implement safety initiatives.

Your work helps safeguard users across Google products, including Search, Maps, Gmail, and Ads, with a focus on scaling adversarial testing and delivering actionable insights to leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
• 5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Master's degree.
• 5 years of experience or familiarity with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.
• 5 years of experience or familiarity with machine learning systems.
• Experience with Generative AI.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver analytic insights based on innovative and complex red teaming exercises that help uncover content abuse risks. Inform and lead the creation and refinement of net new red teaming methodologies, strategies and tactics.
• Help mature red teaming capabilities by designing and implementing technical solutions in collaboration within and across the team that provide optimized approaches that help support and scale adversarial testing.
• Contribute to project scoping, design, and functional teams, including Product, Engineering, Research, and Policy, to drive the implementation of strategic safety initiatives. Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on complex content safety issues, providing actionable insights and recommendations.
• This role works with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, and/or upsetting topics or content.

Skills

SQL

R

Python

C++

Machine learning

Generative AI

Excellent communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience

Master's degree

Job description

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 (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance


• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks


• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks


• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Seattle, WA, USA; Austin, TX, USA.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.


• 5 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.


• 5 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree.


• 5 years of experience or familiarity with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++.


• 5 years of experience or familiarity with machine learning systems.


• Experience with Generative AI.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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.

The Content Adversarial Red Team (CART) in Trust & Safety is a key product area partner and critical part of Google's mission to launch bold and responsible GenAI products. CART conducts red teaming to uncover new and emerging content risks in Google's premier GenAI products. CART works alongside product, policy, and enforcement teams to help build the safest possible experiences for Google users. As a technical expert on the team, we will look to you to help foster a culture of continuous learning as you share your expertise in adversarial techniques and technical solutions.

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.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $159000 - $230000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

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• Deliver analytic insights based on innovative and complex red teaming exercises that help uncover content abuse risks. Inform and lead the creation and refinement of net new red teaming methodologies, strategies and tactics.


• Help mature red teaming capabilities by designing and implementing technical solutions in collaboration within and across the team that provide optimized approaches that help support and scale adversarial testing.


• Contribute to project scoping, design, and functional teams, including Product, Engineering, Research, and Policy, to drive the implementation of strategic safety initiatives. Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on complex content safety issues, providing actionable insights and recommendations.


• This role works with sensitive content or situations and may be exposed to graphic, controversial, and/or upsetting topics or content.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .