Data Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (Safety)

Meta

Location
Menlo Park, California, US
Salary range
USD $177,000 – $247,000 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Data & Analytics
Posted
2 days ago

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $150k to $220k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.

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Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 6+ years · posts $177k to $247k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as P2.

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About the job

As a Data Scientist in Safety, you will establish the analytical foundations that allow us to advance personal superintelligence safely and securely. You will help us turn complex, ambiguous risks with incomplete ground truth into measurable systems across model evaluations and online monitoring. You'll work with engineering, research, product, policy, and legal to design and build measurement and mitigation strategies, quantifying trade-offs between user friction and safety risks.

Data Scientist, Meta Superintelligence Labs (Safety) Responsibilities

Measure abuse: build statistical telemetry and measurement frameworks to detect and monitor policy violations or emergent harms Scale model evaluation: design a scalable framework adapting to evolving agentic model capabilities and safety/risk landscape, grounded in statistics Evaluate and optimize safeguards: scale offline and online performance evaluation of our safeguards using human-in-the-loop and active learning Design experiments and analyses: Conduct controlled experiments and rollouts to evaluate the impact of policy or risk definition changes and safety mitigations Build intelligence and reporting: build signals, pipelines, dashboards to enable real-time monitoring driving interventions and safety roadmaps

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience A minimum of 6 years of work experience in analytics (minimum of 4 years with a Ph.D.) Experience with data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R)

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in frontier AI products or risks, and navigating online, adversarial environments in Trust & Safety or Fraud/Risk/Security domains. Model evals, threat modelling, actor telemetry, human-in-the-loop review systems don’t sound foreign to you Familiar with fast-paced, high-ambiguity, cross-functional environments – able to jump from agentic trace deep-dives to explaining risk dimensions in plain English to policy stakeholders Background in ambiguous and sparse data environments to operationalize e.g. harm prevalence measurement, causal inference, root-cause analysis– rooted in strong quantitative/statistical foundations

Master's or Ph.D. Degree in a quantitative field

Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews) Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements) Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

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Social platforms · AI and model safety · Media and streaming · Menlo Park, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2004

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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, and the source of much of the open safety tooling stack.

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