Research Scientist- Privacy

TikTok; Oslo; On-site; NOK 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok is seeking a Research Scientist specialized in Privacy to advance privacy research and implement novel privacy techniques across our product stack.

You will design and execute research with cross-functional teams, translate findings into prototypes, and contribute to the PI Lab's collaboration with researchers worldwide.

Qualifications

• PhD in Privacy Security Machine Learning Cryptography or a related field, or 5+ years of relevant research experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in privacy-enhanced techniques and related domains.
• Proven records of publications and awards in top security conferences.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute technical and theoretic research on the critical industrial challenges on privacy innovation.
• Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from TikTok product family and provide technical consulting on privacy related features.
• Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
• Advocate for research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
• Represent PI Lab and our work in external technical and academic community.
• PhD in Privacy Security Machine Learning Cryptography or a related field or 5+ years of experience working on related research.
• Demonstrated expertise in privacy-enhanced techniques (PET) and related technical domains including data and identity anonymization differential privacy secure multi-party computation federated machine learning on-device machine learning interpretable AI privacy-preserving technology for large language models (LLM) or foundation models privacy-preserving regulation technology etc.
• Proven records of publications and awards in top security and other related academic conferences.
• Ability to develop research questions from the critical industrial challenges on 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.

Skills

PhD in Privacy

ML Research

Privacy Tech

Collaboration

Publications

Education

PhD in Privacy/Related Field

Tools

Differential Privacy Tools

MPC Frameworks

LLM Privacy Tooling

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Job description

Research Scientist - Privacy

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.

Together we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.

To us every challenge no matter how difficult is an opportunity to learn to innovate and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.

At TikTok we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves our company and the communities we serve.

At TikTok we treat privacy as our first priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users’ privacy choices!

Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab is established to explore the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in the digitalized world. We provide key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok’s products. Furthermore we also collaborate with worldwide technical and academic communities to build an open ecosystem to promote privacy friendly digital experience.

PI Lab is growing fast and seeking highly experienced bright and capable researchers and professionals to join our team. As a member of PI Lab you will have the opportunities to research advanced privacy technology and theory together with worldwide influential researchers and to tackle the critical industrial challenges on privacy innovation serving billions of TikTok users by applying cutting-edge technology.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute technical and theoretic research on the critical industrial challenges on privacy innovation.
• Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from TikTok product family and provide technical consulting on privacy related features.
• Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
• Advocate for research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
• Represent PI Lab and our work in external technical and academic community.
• PhD in Privacy Security Machine Learning Cryptography or a related field or 5+ years of experience working on related research.
• Demonstrated expertise in privacy-enhanced techniques (PET) and related technical domains including data and identity anonymization differential privacy secure multi-party computation federated machine learning on-device machine learning interpretable AI privacy-preserving technology for large language models (LLM) or foundation models privacy-preserving regulation technology etc.
• Proven records of publications and awards in top security and other related academic conferences.
• Ability to develop research questions from the critical industrial challenges on 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.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills experiences and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities pregnancy sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation please reach out to us at [e-mail] .