Tiktok - Seattle, WA

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Senior
Seattle, WA
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. The company operates globally, with headquarters in Los Angeles and Singapore, and offices in major cities including New York, London, and Tokyo. The Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab at TikTok is dedicated to exploring the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in a digitalized world. This lab provides key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok products, collaborating with technical and academic communities to promote a privacy-friendly digital experience. The successful candidate will engage in designing and executing technical and theoretical research to address critical industrial challenges in privacy innovation. This role involves working closely with product teams to understand privacy requirements and providing technical consulting on privacy-related features. Additionally, the candidate will collaborate with engineering teams to apply research findings to product prototyping and advocate for these findings through written reports and presentations. Representing the PI Lab in external technical and academic communities is also a key responsibility. Candidates must commit to an onboarding date by the end of 2025 and should clearly state their availability and graduation date in their resumes. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and candidates can apply for a maximum of two positions, with consideration given in the order of application.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute technical and theoretic research on the critical industrial challenges of privacy innovation.
  • Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from our product family and provide technical consulting on privacy related features.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from research to product prototyping.
  • Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
  • Represent PI Lab and our work in external technical and academic communities.

Requirements

  • PhD in Privacy, Security, Machine Learning, or 5+ years of experience working on related research.
  • Demonstrated expertise in measurable AI privacy including quantized privacy risk measurement, differential privacy, membership inference attack, interpretable AI, AI fairness, synthetic data generation for AI, adversarial machine learning, etc.
  • Proven records of publications and awards in top security and other related academic conferences.
  • Ability to develop research questions regarding the critical industrial challenges of privacy innovation, and knowledge of using technical tools for the required experiments and proof-of-concept prototyping.
  • Ability to work globally and collaboratively within a team and with external researchers.

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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