Senior Technical Threat Investigator, Trust and Safety Intel Investigations
Washington, D.C.$159k - $230kFull-timePosted 3d ago
About the role
Senior Engineering Analyst Investigator role focusing on identifying high-severity on-platform abuse, conducting technical investigations, and building scalable, AI-enabled detection and enforcement solutions across Google products.
Responsibilities
- Investigate sophisticated emerging actor networks and behaviors across Google’s ecosystem by correlating complex internal telemetry, OSINT, and third-party intelligence at scale.
- Identify opportunities to automate investigative tradecraft by designing and building end-to-end SQL and Python scripts and pipelines, LLM/agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks to support proactive threat discovery.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Data Science, and Product teams to deploy network-scoped disruptions, implement high-precision signals, and evaluate and improve detection systems’ performance (e.g., precision, recall, and false-positive rates).
- Analyze and interpret large datasets to quantify abuse trends, author actionable intelligence reports, and communicate technical findings and mitigation proposals to engineering, product, policy, and leadership stakeholders.
- Review graphic, controversial, or objectionable material as part of content review responsibilities.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, Intelligence Studies, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in data analysis, cybersecurity, or technical threat investigations, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative datasets.
- 5 years of experience utilizing SQL, Python, or similar scripting/programming languages to query datasets, build data pipelines, and solve engineering and abuse-detection problems.
- 5 years of experience managing projects, including defining project scope, goals, and deliverables in a globally distributed environment.
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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