Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (Business Risk Integrated Control- Risk Systems and Tools) - 2025 Start (PhD)

$145,000 - $250,000/Yr

Tiktok - San Jose, CA

Full-time - Entry Level

San Jose, CA

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team at TikTok is dedicated to protecting users from abusive behaviors and ensuring the authenticity of the platform. This role involves building machine learning solutions to mitigate various business risks associated with TikTok products, such as fake accounts and spam. The position offers a unique opportunity to engage with key security initiatives and contribute to the development of robust, intelligent systems that enhance platform health and user experience.

Responsibilities

• Build machine learning solutions to respond to and mitigate business risks in TikTok products/platforms.
• Build modeling infrastructures, LLM applications, labels, features and algorithms towards robustness, automation and generalization.
• Uplevel risk machine learning excellence on privacy/compliance, interpretability, risk perception and analysis.

Requirements

• PhD in computer science, statistics, or other relevant, machine-learning-heavy majors.
• Solid coding skills and ability to build large scale systems.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Golang, Java, C++, Rust.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong machine learning background.
• Proficiency or publications in modern machine learning theories and applications such as deep learning, transfer/multi-task learning, reinforcement learning, time series or graph algorithms.
• Familiarity with machine learning infrastructure or LLM applications, or social/content platform realtime stream computing systems.
• Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally.

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% for dependents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 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 and cellphone service reimbursements.