Research Engineer - AI Safety Systems and Guardrails

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Research Engineer to join the System Safety team within Product & Applied Research org at Meta Superintelligence Labs. This role will focus on researching and developing advanced machine learning models, novel algorithms, and scalable systems that improve the safety of Meta's AI products, including Meta AI and conversational, multimodal, and agentic experiences. You will bring current AI safety research into practical product safeguards, with a primary focus on guardrails, policy-adaptable risk detection, adversarial robustness, and safe agent behavior. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with end-to-end ownership of a significant safety area—from setting research direction and developing methods through rigorous evaluation, cross-team integration, and continuous improvement in production.