Software 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
- 13 months 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 systems that detect and disrupt abuse and fraud on Vercel's deployment and compute platform, including fraud run through AI agents, abuse of deployments and compute, and payment fraud on token-based usage. The role sits on a trust and safety engineering team and is built around stopping abuse at internet scale.
What you'd do
- Build production services that catch AI agent fraud and abuse of deployments and compute.
- Build detection systems that surface abuse patterns across large datasets.
- Ship LLM classifiers and prevention tools, along with the datasets and evals that score them.
- Maintain internal tooling used in trust and safety workflows.
- Study threat actor behavior to sharpen detection logic.
- Partner with security, product, and infra teams to take prototypes to stable production.
What it asks for
- Shipped JavaScript/TypeScript and Python code, owning systems from prototype to deployment.
- Working LLM experience across prompting, evaluation, and fine-tuning.
- Experience operating production services on AWS.
- Experience shipping an AI-based trust and safety system to production (preferred).
- Experience building or hosting a project on Vercel (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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