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X 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

Minimum qualifications:

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

Preferred qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, quantitative or quantitative discipline (e.g., Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, etc.).
• 2 years of experience in building or reverse engineering JavaScript, PHP, mobile/web applications.
• Experience with static and dynamic analysis of malicious binaries.
• Knowledge of one or more of the following areas: statistical analysis and machine learning libraries (e.g., R, TensorFlow), programming languages (e.g., Python), Large Language Models (LLMs) or applied AI.
• Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention-to-detail in an ever-changing environment.
• Familiarity with the development life-cycle and security considerations specific to browser extensions.

About the job
Trust and 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.

As a Security and Applied AI Analyst for the Chrome Web Store and Extensions Security team, you will leverage your domain expertise to perform technical investigations, uncover abuse vectors and techniques, and use your combined problem-solving and strategic acumen to improve our protection protocols and evolve them into scalable, AI driven systems. You will collaborate closely with engineering and product partners to identify threats, mitigate risks, and launch new protection mechanisms to help make the Chrome platform ecosystem the safest in the world. You will deploy solutions, both algorithmic and operational which will enable Google to identify and flag abuse more easily, more effectively, and at scale.At Google we work hard to earn our users' trust every day. Trust and 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: $132000 - $189000 (USD) 15% bonus target equity benefits

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Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations to catch harmful and abusive behavior and actors, enforce our product policies, learning abuse patterns, and establishing ground truth data to train automated systems.
• Reverse engineer potentially harmful extensions (written in JavaScript) to understand their operations and impact on the Chrome ecosystem.
• Design AI-powered and automated solutions that enable scalable identification of malware, spam, and other harmful extensions.
• Collaborate with other teams to develop and deploy new detection methods and signals, train and mentor a large team of security reviewers.
• Enhance operational workflows via AI integration, process improvements, and identifying automation opportunities.