Senior Staff Research Scientist, App And Ecosystem Trust

Senior Staff Research Scientist

As an organization, Google maintains a portfolio of research projects driven by fundamental research, new product innovation, product contribution and infrastructure goals, while providing individuals and teams the freedom to emphasize specific types of work. As a Research Scientist, you'll setup large-scale tests and deploy promising ideas quickly and broadly, managing deadlines and deliverables while applying the latest theories to develop new and improved products, processes, or technologies.

Our team's mission is protecting billions of Android users from abusive apps, including malware, content abuse, impersonation, and behavioral abuse. Preventing abuse is fascinating technically and it features an adversarial scenario where we try to detect bad actors who try in turn to evade detection. Impact and success translates directly to keeping the Android ecosystem safe and protecting users from a variety of types of abuse.

Responsibilities:

• Identify threats and trends to help the team rapidly develop new strategies against evolving adversarial tactics and abuser bypass techniques.
• Develop and publish novel research on Android security and AI agent safety, collaborating with global academic and technical partners to improve defenses.
• Design neuro-symbolic and agent-powered systems to identify privacy threats, reverse-engineer apps, and ensure the safety of autonomous systems interacting with mobile web environments.
• Perform analysis on codebases (Java, JavaScript, Native) using machine learning to detect malware, bypass obfuscation, and neutralize evasion techniques.
• Work with teams across Google such as AdSpam, Android Platform, Actor Trust, and Google Research to address abuse problems collaboratively.

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