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  • Design, prototype, and ship safety for AI driven threats across CBRN, Cyber, Agentic, Fraud risks with classifiers, runtime policy enforcement, and ML systems. Own the technical vision and reference architecture for safeguarding agentic systems across tool use, planning, memory, and multi-agent interactions, etc.
  • Lead threat modeling for increasingly complex attack surfaces, anticipating adversary behavior and translating it into concrete engineering requirements and defenses.
  • Shape the shared safety and security infrastructure that AI workloads depend on, ensuring defenses are reusable across products.
  • Work objectively across teams and team members to diagnose problems, recommend solutions, align on standards, and raise the engineering bar through design reviews, mentorship, etc.
  • Build data analysis, detection, and response capabilities needed to observe safety-relevant behavior at scale, measure efficacy, and close the loop quickly when threats emerge.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of professional experience in engineering leadership or related technical roles.
  • Experience in AI and machine learning, including building and deploying classifiers and ML systems in production.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with command of threat modeling, particularly for complex, evolving, and adversarial systems.
  • Experience securing agentic or autonomous AI systems (tool use, planning, multi-agent).
  • Experience with agent platform technologies such as Vertex AI or Gemini Enterprise.
  • Demonstrated ability to make risk-based trade-offs and to reduce complexity in hard problem spaces.
  • Proven track record of building defenses that have meaningfully and measurably reduced risk.
  • Depth in adversarial ML, red-teaming, or abuse/fraud detection, and a strong track record of influencing without authority and working effectively across teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
  • 15 years of professional experience in engineering leadership or related technical roles.
  • Experience in AI and machine learning, including building and deploying classifiers and ML systems in production.
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  • Role Principal Engineer, Safeguards
  • Experience 8-9 years
  • Education Bachelor Degree, or equivalent experience
  • Work type On-site
  • Location United States
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Google
AI Research Lab · 500+ Members · Mountain View, CA, United States

Google builds internet, software, cloud, and AI products used by consumers, developers, and organizations. Its portfolio includes Search, YouTube, Android, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, Workspace, Google Cloud, advertising platforms, devices, and Gemini AI products. The company develops large-scale computing infrastructure and research that power information retrieval, communication, productivity, media, navigation, and machine learning. Google is the largest operating business within Alphabet and earns a substantial share of its revenue from digital advertising.

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209K – 231K

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United States Right to work in the United States required.
Workplace
On-site
Job Posted:
1 day ago
Job Type
Full Time
Education
Bachelor Degree, or equivalent experience
Experience
8-9 years

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