Software Engineer (Technical Leadership)
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Meta, a leading social media and AI company, is hiring a Principal Engineer for its Central Integrity team in London. The role focuses on designing large-scale AI systems to detect and disrupt harm, such as bot attacks and child safety risks. The position requires strong engineering fundamentals combined with cutting-edge AI expertise to address high-stakes, global-scale integrity challenges.
Meta is seeking experienced engineers to join our Central Integrity team which exists to keep billions of people safe on Meta's platforms. We design and deploy systems that detect and disrupt harm at an unprecedented global scale, making this one of the largest deployments of AI for positive real-world impact anywhere in the industry. Our work safeguards critical areas including child and youth safety, fraud and scams, identity and authenticity and more while actively building defences against novel frontier threats, such as autonomous AI agents and automated risk vectors. This represents some of the most technically demanding and high-stakes engineering and product at Meta, driven by a deeply mission-focused team. You'll combine strong engineering fundamentals with cutting-edge AI to build effective, adaptable solutions that stay ahead of evolving integrity and safety risks. If you are driven by hard technical challenges and want your work to deliver immediate, real-world impact, this is where you belong.
As a Principal Engineer on the Abusive Actors team, you will own our technical strategy for identifying and disrupting the actors and coordinated networks behind the biggest integrity risks our users face across Meta’s family of apps. Scaled bot attacks, Scams and child safety risks are some of the most pressing issues you will help us to measure and sustainably reduce.
About the Company
At Meta, we believe in impact and building a career where you’re challenged and valued in teams that are the best at what they do. Join us as we create and innovate the technologies of the future. We are advancing AI for a connected world. From developing category defining products to testing and launching wearables at global scale, there are many ways you can help us build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible.
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