Company Description
LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.
Join us to transform the way the world works.
Job Description
This role will be based in Dublin, Ireland.
At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimised for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team.
LinkedIn was built to help professionals achieve more in their careers, and everyday millions of people use our products to make connections, discover opportunities and gain insights. Our global reach means we get to make a direct impact on the world’s workforce in ways no other company can. We’re much more than a digital resume – we transform lives through innovative products and technology.
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The Senior AI Prompt Engineer – plays a critical role in how LinkedIn leverages AI to enhance safety, trust, and operational excellence across our platform. You will design, evaluate, and optimize prompts and AI‑driven workflows to improve moderation quality, operational efficiency, and classifier performance.
You will lead complex prompt experimentation, conduct investigations into model behavior, partner cross‑functionally to drive system improvements, and ensure alignment with policy, safety standards, and global regulatory frameworks.
This role is ideal for someone who operates at the intersection of AI systems, content safety, operational rigor, and policy alignment, and wants to influence the future of AI‑assisted Trust Review Operations at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Lead initiatives with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Policy, and Research to advance AI‑enabled Trust & Safety workflows.
- Drive alignment on prompt engineering strategies, classifier improvements, and model‑driven risk mitigation.
- Communicate effectively across technical and non‑technical audiences to guide adoption of AI tooling.
- Mentor peers involved in AI experimentation, orchestration, or operational testing.
- Build team capabilities around prompt safety, AI agent best practices, and quality assurance.
- Partner with senior staff to develop learning programs in AI literacy, human‑in‑the‑loop design, and prompt engineering.
- Contribute to a high‑performance, experimental, data‑driven culture within Trust Review Operations.
Core Responsibilities:
Prompt Design, Testing & Optimization
- Design, evaluate, and iterate on prompts for generative and classification models supporting moderation, risk detection, case summarization, and reviewer assistance.
- Conduct complex prompt‑based investigations to diagnose model behavior, failure modes, and quality issues.
- Establish frameworks for evaluating AI outputs across accuracy, bias, safety, and consistency.
AI‑Driven Case Resolution & Risk Mitigation
- Integrate AI tooling into Trust Operations workflows to support scalable and consistent resolution of high‑risk cases.
- Develop mitigation plans for model errors and propose long‑term improvements that reduce operational and platform risk.
Escalation & Incident Management for AI Behavior
- Serve as the Trust Operations escalation point for issues involving AI output quality, hallucinations, override rates, and misclassifications.
- Lead initiatives to prevent AI‑driven escalations and strengthen model governance.
- Create and enforce root‑cause and intervention frameworks specific to model performance.
Policy & Regulatory Alignment
- Ensure AI‑generated outputs comply with platform policies, MDSS, safety standards, and international regulations (e.g., DSA, synthetic media rules).
- Collaborate with Policy and Engineering teams to identify and mitigate emerging compliance risks.
Feedback Integration & Model Improvement
- Lead feedback‑collection programs focused on AI output quality, partnering with Policy Operations, Data Science, Engineering, and human reviewers.
- Translate reviewer insights into actionable model refinement requirements and product changes.
Data Analysis & Experimentation
- Analyze model and prompt performance data to generate insights and influence improvements.
- Execute experiments, measure impact, validate results, and present findings to leadership.
- Partner with Data Science to build recurring model performance dashboards and reports.
Trend & Behavior Analysis
- Monitor trends in user behavior, harmful content types, and classifier drift to anticipate new risk patterns.
- Influence roadmap decisions by identifying where AI or automation can enhance detection, routing, or review efficiency.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Data Science, Policy, AI Engineering or related field
- 1+ years experience designing, debugging / optimizing prompts for LLMs or content moderation models.
- 5+ years experience in Trust & Safety, content moderation, quality engineering, policy, or related domains.
- 2+ years experience using data tools (e.g., SQL and python) to evaluate model and prompt performance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce clear, structured prompt instructions.
- Ability to analyze model outputs and identify behavioral patterns, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Experience successfully implementing Decision Quality solutions / frameworks
- Prior experience working with classification models, generative AI systems, or human‑in‑the‑loop workflows.
- Understanding of Trust & Safety policies, global regulations (e.g., DSA), and safety standards.
- Experience partnering directly with Product, Engineering, or Data Science teams on AI feature development.
- Familiarity with evaluation metrics such as precision, recall, FPR, FDR, and adversarial testing.
- Ability to influence strategy through experimentation, data‑driven insights, and cross‑functional leadership.
Suggested Skills:
- Analytical Excellence
- Creativity & Adaptability
- Data Interpretation
- Leadership & Coaching
- Problem-Solving
- Written Communication
Additional Information
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