Senior Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, Cloud AI

Google

Washington D.C., DC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Analysis Skills, Application Programming Interface (API), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agents, Benchmarking, Cloud Applications, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Computer Security, Cross-Functional, Customer/Client Research, Data Analysis, Data Science, Data Sets, Detail Oriented, Disability Insurance, Employee Benefits, Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), Establish Priorities, Google Apps, Google Search Engine, Life Insurance, Machine Learning, Malware, Mathematics, Metrics, Modeling Languages, Operations Research, Problem Solving Skills, Project/Program Management, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis, SQL (Structured Query Language), Scalable System Development, Security Analysis, Security Attacks, Software Engineering, State Laws and Regulations, Statistics, Strategic Planning, Team Player, Time Series Analysis, Trend Analysis, Use Cases
LOCATION
Washington D.C., DC
POSTED
2 days ago
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: Washington D.C., DC, USA; Seattle, WA, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of experience in data analysis or data science, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Experience with SQL.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Master's degree or PhD in a technical discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.).
  • Experience in security threat or abuse detection.
  • Experience in one domain, such as anomaly detection, security threats analysis and investigation, time-series analysis, Cloud Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), or metrics and reporting.
  • Understanding of generative AI technologies, Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.

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.

In this role, you will play a vital role in ensuring that Google Cloud’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) products are not only powerful but also safe, secure, and trustworthy. Your investigative skills, understanding of potential security harms, for user protection will help the teams solve testing problems in AI security and abuse at scale. You will proactively identify and mitigate emerging threats within the AI landscape, ranging from adversarial attacks to potential misuse of generative technologies. You will synthesize large datasets to uncover patterns of abuse, ensuring that Google's AI deployments remain resilient against sophisticated exploitation while upholding our responsibility for safe AI growth.

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.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $159,000-$231,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deploy scalable safety solutions for Cloud AI products by leveraging advanced machine learning and AI techniques.
  • Use data analysis to discover and interpret how attackers exploit Cloud AI infrastructure or use Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for abuse, identifying weak points in our systems.
  • Define what constitutes abuse in ambiguous or highly novel AI use cases, ensuring our guidelines adapt to AI-driven attacks.
  • Analyze and measure generative/agentic AI risks using benchmarking, dataset design, and scaled usage monitoring.
  • Drive the rapid response for high-priority AI security incidents, conducting through Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) to implement sustainable long-term solutions. Partner with Engineering and Product teams to identify, prioritize, and develop strategies against the most pressing and novel AI threats.
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.

About the Company

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Google

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to  build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer Software
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria
FOUNDED
1998
WEBSITE
https://goo.gle/4dbno6V