Google

Engineering Analyst, Trust and Safety, Egregious Harms

Google$132K — $189K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience in data analysis, focusing on trends and insights.
  • Proficiency in SQL or Python.
  • Master's degree in a quantitative field (preferred).
  • Experience with machine learning tools and techniques (preferred).
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail.
  • Effective communication skills to relay technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Perform data analyses to derive insights that help combat abuse across Google products.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance detection and enforcement systems and automate processes.
  • Lead multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity.
  • Work cross-functionally to ensure alignment on objectives and key results.
  • Analyze performance statistics of ML systems and identify subtle issues in their functionality.
  • Review sensitive or graphic content as part of core responsibilities.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • 20 days of vacation annually, accruing at 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years.
  • 40 hours of sick leave per year, increasing to 69 hours/year for Seattle, plus 5 discretionary sick days.
  • Maternity leave of 28-30 weeks.
  • Baby bonding leave of 18 weeks.
  • 13 paid holidays per year.
Full Job Description
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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 one or more of the following languages: SQL or Python.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree in a quantitative discipline.
  • Experience with scripting language, machine learning tools, techniques and systems (including large language models).
  • Knowledge of current abuse techniques and practices.
  • Ability to work with a variety of stakeholders to gather requirements, explain models, and iterate to make improvements.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical thinking skills with attention to detail in an ever-changing environment.
  • Excellent communication with an ability to describe technical implementations or analyses to a non-tech audience.


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.
As an Engineering Analyst within the Trust and Safety team, you will be part of a global team that ensures the seamless detection and enforcement of some of the most egregious online harms (e.g., child sexual abuse materials, non-consensual intimate imagery, violent extremism). Through close partnerships with Product, Engineering, Policy, and Legal, you will leverage your technical acumen to design and develop novel solutions to further Google's ability to fight this abuse worldwide.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $132,000-$189,000 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
  • Perform data analyses to derive insights that help identify emerging threats and fight abuse across our products.
  • Identify opportunities for the improvement of Google's detection and enforcement systems as well as for automation.
  • Lead multiple interdependent projects of moderate to high complexity and scope. Work cross-functionally to ensure coordination and alignment on objectives and key results.
  • Analyze statistics (e.g., precision, recall) about the performance of technical models (ML systems, classifiers, LLMs) and recognize nuanced, easily missed problems in the performance of these systems.
  • Review or be exposed to sensitive or graphic content as part of core role.


About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Learn more about Google
Size
156,500 employees
Market Cap
$1,115.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$40.2 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
+23.3%
Revenue
$182.5 billion
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