Security Engineer, Applied AI

Job description

Meta is seeking Security Engineers to join our Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI) organization. As a Security Engineer in AAI, you will apply deep domain expertise to solve hard, real-world security problems — building novel security capabilities, prototyping AI-powered defenses, and advancing the frontier of what AI systems can do in security. Your work is AI-augmented from day one: you leverage AI tools and agents to accelerate your impact, and where the models fall short, your expertise directly drives their improvement. You will blend hands-on security engineering with applied research — designing and executing novel approaches to security challenges that push both the state of Meta's security posture and the state of the art in AI-driven security. This includes building security products and tools, conducting original adversary research, developing detection and response capabilities, and translating security expertise into scalable, AI-native systems. Your domain knowledge — whether in detection engineering, threat intelligence, cloud security, adversary simulation, forensic investigation, or emerging areas — becomes the foundation for capabilities no existing AI system can replicate. This role is for security practitioners who want to operate at the intersection of deep security expertise and frontier AI — not just using AI as a tool, but shaping what it is capable of.