Machine Learning Engineer, Trust & Safety
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco, New York City
- Salary range
- USD $208,000 – $312,000 base
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- 5 days ago
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $160k to $230k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 5+ years · posts $208k to $312k base at a company of 500 to 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from Vercel's posting.
Engineering work on the Trust & Safety Engineering team at Vercel, building and running production systems that detect and stop abuse across the platform at internet scale. The role is about 80% shipping production code and 20% modeling, taking detection and classification approaches from prototype to hardened systems.
What you'd do
- Build and run systems that catch and shut down abusive activity across the platform, with attention to reliability and monitoring
- Create the ML plumbing: training and feature pipelines, model serving, and frameworks for measuring model quality
- Put LLM and classical ML detection and classifiers into production, rewriting prototypes into code others can maintain
What it asks for
- Five or more years building and operating production software at scale
- Production coding in Python, plus JavaScript/TypeScript or Go
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining ML infrastructure such as training or serving pipelines, feature stores, or evaluation tools
- Experience putting LLMs into production, including prompt design and evaluation
- Built an open source ML tool (preferred)
- Worked in trust and safety, fraud, or abuse prevention (preferred)
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About Vercel

The employer
About Vercel
Infrastructure and developer tools · San Francisco, CA · 501 to 1,000 people · Founded 2015
Frontend cloud platform for deploying and running web applications.
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