AI Specialist, Identity and Access Management; IAM

AI Specialist, Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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Protecting Meta’s data and workforce is an explicit top priority for the company. We are part of Security Foundations within the Cross-Meta Security team, dedicated to building and supporting the critical security components of our infrastructure. Our mission is to prevent security incidents for Meta and its users efficiently  vision is to provide the best in class internal protection of user data and company resources by focusing on building robust and scalable identity, authentication, and access management infrastructure that addresses top risks.

The team is responsible for right‑sizing access control across the company, enforcing those controls across all Meta services, developing systems that can analyze patterns of access to company assets, making recommendations about appropriate access models, and automatically applying changes  team also owns services and libraries that support authentication and authorization across Meta infrastructure, supporting roughly ~2.3B authentication events a second and ~20B authorization checks a second, on critical paths for Messaging, GenAI, IG, Whats App, and most services within Meta infrastructure.

AI will change the way that we work, and how Access Management is done within Meta. This role will help bootstrap our overall ML team within the IAM space, exploring ways AI can help us right‑size access throughout Meta.

• Build ML models that intelligently recommend appropriate access levels based on role, team, project needs, and security requirements.
• Develop AI tools to streamline and enhance the access review process, identifying anomalies and potential security risks.
• Create intelligent systems to assist with configuring complex access patterns and permissions across Meta's infrastructure.
• Advance the science and technology of intelligent machines.
• Work on research projects, strategies, and problems of moderate to high complexity and scope, defining short and medium term objectives.
• Influence progress of relevant research communities by producing publications.
• Establish connections with cross‑functional partners and contribute research with the goal of applying to Meta's product development.
• Lead and collaborate on research projects within a team.
• Design policies, processes, procedures, methods, tests, and/or components from the ground up for end‑to‑end systems.
• Apply in‑depth knowledge of how the machine learning system interacts with other systems around it.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience leading a team in solving modeling problems using AI/ML approaches.
• Experience applying research to production problems.
• Experience communicating research for public audiences of peers.
• 12+ years experience developing and debugging in Python, C/C++, or C#.
• Must obtain work authorization in the country of employment at the time of hire, and maintain ongoing work authorization during employment.

• 4+ years of experience as a technical lead for a project of 4 or more individuals.
• Experience with interdisciplinary and/or cross‑functional collaboration.
  
  Experience bringing machine learning‑based products from research to production.
• Highly experienced in analytical and problem‑solving skills, including a basic understanding of data analysis techniques.
• Good grasp of SOX, SOC2, NIST, PCI, ISO, and other security regulations.
• Experience in the IAM (Identity and Access Management) domain in a cloud‑based infrastructure environment.
  
  Program and project management skills.

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