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From the employer's careers site First seen 26 Oct 2026

Machine Learning Engineer, Trust & Safety

Vercel San Francisco, CA Hybrid senior full-time

Salary

$208,000 - $312,000 per year

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Description

We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer on our Trust & Safety Engineering team to build and operate the production systems that detect and stop abuse on the platform at internet scale.

This is an engineering-first role, roughly 80% writing and shipping production code (services, pipelines, and infrastructure) and 20% modeling, taking detection and classification approaches from prototype to hardened systems.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, and operate production systems that detect and disrupt abusive behavior across the platform, with an emphasis on reliability, scalability, and observability
  • Build and maintain machine learning (ML) infrastructure, including training pipelines, feature pipelines, serving infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks
  • Ship large language model (LLM) and classical ML approaches for abuse detection and classification, turning prototypes into maintainable code
  • Own systems end to end, from integrating a model into the platform through deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Work with security, product, and infrastructure teams to turn abuse patterns and detection logic into production systems

Requirements:

  • 5+ years of software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale
  • Wrote production code in Python, plus JavaScript/TypeScript or Go
  • Built and maintained ML infrastructure, such as training and serving pipelines, feature stores, or evaluation tooling
  • Integrated LLMs into production systems, including prompt engineering and evaluation

Nice to have:

  • Built an open source ML tool
  • Worked in the trust and safety, fraud, or abuse prevention domain

Compensation & Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation package, including equity
  • Inclusive Healthcare Package
  • Learn and Grow - we provide mentorship and send you to events that help you build your network and skills
  • Flexible Time Off
  • We will provide you the gear you need to do your role, and a WFH budget for you to outfit your space as needed

The San Francisco, CA base pay range for this role is $208,000.00 - $312,000.00. Actual salary will be based on job-related skills, experience, and location.

Skills

Nice to have

  • open source ML tool
  • trust and safety
  • fraud
  • abuse prevention

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/vercel/jobs/6208037004

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