Tiktok - San Jose, CA

posted 3 months ago

Full-time - Entry Level
San Jose, CA
Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, with a mission to inspire creativity and bring joy. Our Trust and Safety engineering team is rapidly expanding and is responsible for developing machine learning models and systems to combat internet abuse and fraud on our platform. This role is crucial as it aims to protect billions of users and publishers globally every day. We leverage state-of-the-art machine learning technologies to analyze and improve the vast amounts of data generated on TikTok, ensuring the best user experience and joy for everyone. As a machine learning engineer on our team, you will lead the development of trust and safety machine learning production models. Your work will involve creating image classifiers, object detectors, video understanding models, and multi-modal classifiers. You will collaborate closely with engineering teams to implement model pipelines and deploy services at scale. Additionally, you will work with product teams to define objectives and enhance our trust and safety strategy, as well as partner with data analysts to identify and understand data patterns. We are looking for candidates who are not only technically proficient but also passionate about learning and tackling challenging problems. You will have the opportunity to work alongside engineers, product managers, and business partners to address the most pressing safety and integrity issues at an internet scale. This position is open to both junior and senior levels, providing a unique opportunity for growth and development within a dynamic team.

Responsibilities

  • Lead to build the trust and safety machine learning production models
  • Work on image classifiers, object detectors, video understanding models, multi-modal classifiers, etc.
  • Work with engineering teams to implement model pipeline and deploy the service at scale
  • Collaborate with product teams to define objectives and improve trust and safety strategy
  • Collaborate with data analysts to understand and find data patterns

Requirements

  • Minimum requirement is a BS degree with 2+ years' industrial experience, or a MS/PhD degree with 1+ years' relevant experience
  • Hands-on experience in one or more of the areas: image classification, object detection, video understanding, motion analysis or multi-modal modeling
  • Good programming skills in Python and similar languages, and a deep understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • Good communication and teamwork skills, be passionate about learning new techniques and taking on challenging problems

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in trust and safety
  • Publications in top conferences

Benefits

  • 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
  • Approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with company match
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Short/Long term Disability insurance
  • Basic Life insurance
  • Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options
  • 10 paid holidays per year
  • 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
  • 10 paid sick days per year
  • 12 weeks of paid Parental leave
  • 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
  • Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
  • 401K company match
  • Gym reimbursement
  • Cellphone service reimbursement
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