CareerPlan

Research Scientist / Research Engineer, Search Integrity

San FranciscoFull-time2026-10-21 → 2026-11-09

Core

Lead Search Integrity systems to distinguish useful web content from spam, manipulation, and adversarial material using AI and ML.

Role type

Senior Research Scientist / Research Engineer (Search Integrity)

Builds

Classifiers, detection methods, and evaluation systems for search integrity signals.

Domain

AI Safety, Search Quality, Adversarial Content Detection

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

web spam detection, adversarial content detection, applied ML, classifier development, signal discovery, evaluation design, system architecture

Preferred skills

experience with coordinated manipulation patterns, frontier models, hands-on engineering, first-principles approach to compute

Technologies

frontier models, ML frameworks, search indexing systems

Responsibilities

Define technical direction for Search Integrity, develop AI/ML systems to detect spam/scams/phishing, discover signals across content/links/metadata, build evaluation metrics, translate signals into indexing/ranking decisions, partner with engineering and safety teams.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC