AI Safety & Governance PM Intern

TikTok; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 57,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Housing allowance

Paid holidays

Job summary

TikTok is seeking an AI Safety Evaluation & Governance Product Manager Intern for Summer 2027 in San Jose. You will join the Feed Safety-Model & Data Intelligence team to design evaluation plans, build ground truth datasets, and translate governance standards into measurable outcomes for scalable, high-precision content safety.

The role provides hands-on exposure to AI/ML product development, policy collaboration, and data-driven quality assurance, with mentorship and real-world governance

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master's in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Public Policy, or closely related quantitative fields.
• Solid grasp of applied statistics — sampling, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals, distribution analysis — and ability to apply these to real measurement problems.
• Foundational understanding of AI/ML concepts (classification, NLP, LLMs, precision/recall); comfortable discussing model behavior with engineers.
• Interest in governance, policy, or content safety; appreciation for the complexity of defining "right" and "wrong" at scale.
• Strong structured thinking — able to decompose ambiguous problems into clear goals and prioritized actions; goal‑oriented and hypothesis‑driven.
• Ability to communicate in both English and Chinese to collaborate with global and China‑based stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute evaluation plans for AI safety models — define evaluation objectives, select appropriate metrics, and determine what "good" looks like for each use case.
• Build and maintain high-quality ground truth datasets — design data sampling strategies, develop data cleaning pipelines, and ensure labeling consistency and accuracy.
• Analyze model performance using statistical methods (sampling design, confidence intervals, error analysis) to produce actionable insights for algorithm teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with algorithm engineers to translate evaluation findings into concrete model improvement directions; participate in prompt design and model configuration iteration.
• Communicate evaluation results and governance standards to cross‑functional partners (Policy, Operations, Algorithm); align on definitions and help calibrate quality expectations.
• Continuously improve evaluation processes — identify gaps, propose methodology upgrades, and ensure our evaluation systems scale with model and policy evolution.

Skills

Statistics

Applied statistics

AI/ML concepts

Governance

Communication (English & Chinese)

Structured thinking

Education

Undergraduate/Master in Statistics, CS, Data Science, Public Policy

Job description

TikTok is seeking an AI Safety Evaluation & Governance Product Manager Intern for Summer 2027 in San Jose. You will join the Feed Safety-Model & Data Intelligence team to design evaluation plans, build ground truth datasets, and translate governance standards into measurable outcomes for scalable, high-precision content safety.

The role provides hands-on exposure to AI/ML product development, policy collaboration, and data-driven quality assurance, with mentorship and real-world governance