Senior Trust & Safety Investigator: AI-Driven Abuse

LinkedIn; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellness programs

Competitive compensation

Job summary

LinkedIn seeks a Trust and Safety Investigator to protect members on a fast-paced, globally connected platform. The role is hybrid and based in LinkedIn’s Mountain View campus, combining independent investigations with collaboration across Engineering, Product, and Legal to counter automation abuse.

Ideal candidates bring strong open-source and network-data analysis skills, experience with Python tools, and a track record of producing intelligence artifacts for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience conducting investigations relating to cybercrime, fraud or platform abuse.
• Experience working with SQL, Python and other methods of analyzing threat data.
• Experience interpreting data and behavioral patterns to identify evidence of abuse.
• Experience conducting open-source intelligence investigations.

Responsibilities

• Investigate platform abuse by third-party applications and services
• Produce high-quality analytic products for senior Trust leadership
• Collaborate with a cross-functional working group of peers from Engineering, Product management and Legal on a daily basis
• Manage incident response relating automation abuse, scraping and data exposure
• Organize and effectively track investigations and reports of abuse
• Prioritize and execute casework with limited oversight
• Use AI-assisted workflows, agents, and notebooks to scale investigation and analysis, and evaluate the quality and accuracy of AI output.

Skills

Cyber Crime Investigations

SQL

Adversarial abuse analysis

AI-first workflows and automation

Anti-scraping

Education

BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, digital forensics, or related technical discipline, or related practical experience

Master's Degree in Cyber Security, Criminal Justice, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline

Tools

Python

Wireshark

tcpdump

Job description

LinkedIn seeks a Trust and Safety Investigator to protect members on a fast-paced, globally connected platform. The role is hybrid and based in LinkedIn’s Mountain View campus, combining independent investigations with collaboration across Engineering, Product, and Legal to counter automation abuse.

Ideal candidates bring strong open-source and network-data analysis skills, experience with Python tools, and a track record of producing intelligence artifacts for senior leadership.