Engineering Analyst, YouTube Trust and Safety

Written by the T&S Network from Google's posting.

Engineering analyst work on YouTube's Trust & Safety team, aimed at finding and removing disruptive content and users quickly across a platform where hundreds of hours of video are uploaded every minute. The role covers fraud and spam investigations, anti-abuse experiments, and the strategy for reducing network badness on YouTube.

• Fraud and scams
• Spam and platform abuse

What you'd do

• Run fraud and spam investigations using multiple data sources to find product vulnerabilities.
• Drive anti-abuse experiments and build automation and anti-abuse systems with engineers.
• Design and refine LLM prompts to improve classification of abusive content and behavior.
• Apply advanced statistical methods to large datasets to measure the impact of abuse on YouTube.
• Develop new workflows against additional known abuse vectors.
• Give regular feedback metrics to the global team and manage tools for quality assurance.
• Build scalable training for emerging review workflows and coach others.

What it asks for

• A bachelor's degree, or hands-on work experience in place of one.
• Two years analyzing data to spot patterns, compute summaries, and draw conclusions from numbers and text.
• 2 years of experience managing projects, including scope, goals, and deliverables.
• Master's degree in a quantitative discipline (preferred).
• 2 years of experience or familiarity with SQL, R, Python, or C++ (preferred).
• Two years working with or understanding machine learning systems (preferred).
• Experience synthesizing large datasets from disparate sources and statistical modeling (preferred).

Worth knowing

• Exposure to graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive video content during team escalations.
• On-call work at weekends on a rotational basis.

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