TL;DR

Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning (Safety): Designing, developing, and maintaining data and AI/ML infrastructure and services with an accent on building performant, scalable, and robust ML systems for safety. Focus on tackling complex challenges in adversarial abuse, harmful content detection, and evolving threat vectors using state-of-the-art ML techniques.

Location: Remote (U.S.) or San Francisco Bay Area

Salary: $272,000–$306,000 (yearly)

Company

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What you will do

Serve as technical lead and mentor for the Safety ML team, guiding design, experimentation, and implementation.
Define and drive the team's technical strategy and roadmap for Safety ML.
Ensure the team builds scalable, robust, and high-quality ML systems through technical reviews.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams (product, data science, policy, legal, engineering) on safety goals.
Tackle complex and high-impact safety challenges, including adversarial abuse and harmful content detection.
Develop cutting-edge safety techniques using state-of-the-art ML to prevent harm.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in ML engineering or applied ML roles.
2+ years of experience applying ML in Trust & Safety.
Strong coding skills in Python and fluency in ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow).
Proven experience building performant machine learning systems at scale, driving projects from ideation to production.
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Culture & Benefits

Committed to inclusion and providing reasonable accommodations during the interview process.
Work in a multiplatform, multigenerational, and multiplayer platform environment.
Opportunity to deepen friendships around games and shared interests.
Focus on making it easier and more fun for people to talk and hang out.
Competitive salary, equity, and benefits package.