Data Scientist, Trust & Safety — US Safety ML & Analytics

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Data Scientist for the US Data Security Safety Product team. You will ensure a safe, trustworthy environment across apps while protecting US user data and brand.

The role emphasizes working with large datasets, delivering data products, and influencing safety decisions. The ideal candidate has a background in statistics and product analytics, experience with ML/AI, and the ability to deliver insights in a fast-paced, cross-functional setting within a

Qualifications

• Ph.D., M.S., or Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics/Statistics or other STEM major is required
• Minimum 2 years of industry experience in data science, data analytics, product analytics, quantitative analysis and machine learning experience to build ML-driven products for solving business problems
• Experience with experimentation and testing of Minimum Viable Products to determine if proposed business models / solutions scale up
• Experience in utilizing SQL/Python to extract, manipulate, and analyze datasets.
• Experience with statistical analysis or data modeling techniques, including: hypothesis testing, experiment design, and common regression and classification algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, operations, policy, and engineering teams to scope, design, execute, measure, and improve the impact of US safety efforts
• Break down complex problems by applying the full data science toolkit and provide insights to stakeholders to influence decisions
• Be curious and pursue in-depth explorations of datasets and business
• Conduct quantitative analysis, deliver insights, and influence US Safety decision making through understanding of user behavior
• Design, research, develop and apply ML/AI solutions to solve business problems like prediction and optimization
• Understand data structures; propose improvements and create new data sets when needed to inform analysis
• Design and monitor core metrics; perform root cause analysis to explain drivers
• Identify trends and opportunities to drive safety initiatives and ecosystem quality
• Collect and provide quantitative and qualitative information to measure risk of feature launches

Skills

Data science

Product analytics

Data analytics

Quantitative analysis

ML/AI experience

Experiment design

Hypothesis testing

Statistical analysis

Regression & classification

Education

Ph.D., MS, or BS in CS/DS/Math/Stats

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Data Scientist for the US Data Security Safety Product team. You will ensure a safe, trustworthy environment across apps while protecting US user data and brand.

The role emphasizes working with large datasets, delivering data products, and influencing safety decisions. The ideal candidate has a background in statistics and product analytics, experience with ML/AI, and the ability to deliver insights in a fast-paced, cross-functional setting within a