Engineering Analyst, Ads and Shopping, Trust and Safety

Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience. 2 years of experience in data analysis, including identifying trends, generating summary statistics, and drawing insights from quantitative and qualitative data. 2 years of experience managing projects and defining project scope, goals, and deliverables. Preferred qualifications: Master's degree in a quantitative discipline. 2 years of experience or familiarity with one or more of the following languages: SQL, R, Python, or C++. 2 years of experience or familiarity with machine learning systems. Experience in Trust and Safety related fields that touches Google's ads products. Proven track record of building technical solutions, including aptitude with respect to documenting, testing, and validating code. About the job Fast-paced, dynamic, and proactive, YouTube's Trust & Safety team is dedicated to making YouTube a safe place for users, viewers, and content creators around the world to create, and express themselves. Whether understanding and solving their online content concerns, navigating within global legal frameworks, or writing and enforcing worldwide policy, the Trust & Safety team is on the frontlines of enhancing the YouTube experience, building internet safety, and protecting free speech in our ever-evolving digital world. In this role, you will work with teams from Engineering to Legal, Public Policy and Sales to set policies and combat fraud and abuse often with an eye to finding industry-wide solutions. Trust and Safety team members are problem solvers first, motivated to find innovative solutions and use technical know-how, user insights and proactive communication to pursue the highest possible quality and safety standards for users across Google products. The Service Tools and Circumvention (STAC) team, within Ads and Shopping, is responsible for understanding vulnerabilities in the Ads funnel, guiding partners on appropriate enforcement levers for abuse scenarios, and developing additional enforcement mechanisms to combat circumvention of systems, such as repeat violations across one or more accounts. Your work will directly contribute to preventing high-risk policy-violating impressions and escalations, while also safeguarding the customer experience. You will review graphic, controversial, and sometimes offensive content during the course of the role in line with Google's policies. You should have the ability to review or be exposed to sensitive or violative content as part of the core role. Responsibilities Partner with Product Managers, Engineering and Legal teams to research abuse trends on our ads products, develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and to measure the abuse rate impact. Conduct queries and analyses, build visual models, and construct presentations on abuse trends to aid in fraud prevention and influence change in existing abuse detection systems. Develop frameworks to catch fraudsters, enforce our product policies, learn spam patterns/ trends and identify product vulnerabilities. Define, launch, and drive operational initiatives by working collaboratively cross functionally (e.g., Sales, Product Areas, Engineering, Legal, Policy etc) to ensure coordination and alignment on objectives and key results. Execute structured multiple internal and cross-functional programs simultaneously by developing plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses and developing final recommendations. To be considered for this role you will be redirected to and must complete the application process on our careers page. To start the process, click the Apply button below to Login/Register.