Protection Scientist Engineer, Intelligence and Investigations
Designs and builds systems to proactively detect and enforce against product abuse using data science, ML, and investigations. Collaborates cross-functionally on monitoring new/existing products and responding to critical escalations. Requires 4+ years in technical analysis with SQL/Python.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Scope and implement abuse monitoring requirements for new product launches.
- Improve processes to sustain monitoring operations for existing products, including developing approaches to automate monitoring subtasks.
- Prototype and mature into production systems of detection, review, and enforcement of abuse for major harms.
- Work with Product, Policy, Ops, and Investigative teams to understand key risks and how to address them, and with Engineering teams to ensure we have sufficient data and scaled tooling.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience doing technical analysis and detection, especially using SQL and Python.
- Experience in trust and safety and/or have worked closely with policy, enforcement, and engineering teams. An investigative mindset is key.
- Experience with basic data engineering, such as building core tables or writing data pipelines in production, and with machine learning principles and execution. Basic software development skills are a plus as this role writes productionised code.
- Experience scaling and automating processes, especially with language models.
Skills
SQL, Python, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, Data Pipelines, Trust And Safety, Automation, Language Models, Software Development
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