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Job opportunity
Senior Director Engineering, YouTube Trust and Safety
San Bruno, CA, USA
Source: Google careers · View original posting
- Pay
- $364,000 — $505,000 USD per year
Employer job description
From Google's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
About the job
This role focuses on Detection Engineering and consists of approximately 200 software engineers across Zurich, San Bruno, and Mountain View.
The organization comprises two primary pillars:
Video Content Abuse: Focuses on detecting violative video content on the platform. The team (comprising ~90 engineers) leverages advanced ML architectures (such as multimodal representation topologies) and agentic workflows to increase recall and precision for video abuse classification.
Channel Abuse and GenAI Product Safety: Focuses on detecting violative channels, text abuse and securing Generative AI features via the YouTube Safety API (1pGenAI Safety). The team builds classifiers, automated prompt optimization frameworks, and multimodal protections to defend against adversarial creators and abuses such as hate speech, and harassment in text inputs and outputs. The team also builds APIs called by YouTube’s GenAI features to ensure the safety of the output.