E-Commerce Anti-Fraud Data Scientist – Risk & Insights

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance

401(k) Match

Paid Parental Leave

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an Anti-Fraud Data Scientist to mitigate fraud, abuse, and policy violations on TikTok Shop. You will develop risk strategies, build real-time ML models, and deploy automated alerts while ensuring privacy compliance and user experience are balanced with business growth.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to measure security vs. user friction through experiments and leverage AI workflows to optimize risk detection capabilities across the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data analytics, or engineering.
• Proficient in SQL and Python/R.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in anti-fraud, risk management, trust & safety, data analytics, or data science in e-commerce or the tech industry.

Responsibilities

• Conduct complex, exploratory data analysis to uncover emerging fraud vectors, behavioral anomalies, and latent platform vulnerabilities.
• Define risk metrics, construct self-serve dashboards, and build real-time automated alerting/circuit breakers for rapid threat response and executive visibility.
• Formulate, validate, configure, and deploy risk strategies and rules to mitigate fraud with minimal false positives. Drive the end-to-end development, deployment, and continuous monitoring of real-time machine learning models for risk scoring and fraud detection.
• Leverage graph analytics, clustering, and entity-resolution techniques to uncover coordinated fraud rings and collusive attacks.
• Design and evaluate rigorous A/B experiments to measure the trade-offs between security, financial loss, and legitimate user friction.
• Leverage modern AI tools and LLMs to automate risk workflows, optimize analytics, and streamline detection capabilities.
• Partner on robust data pipeline infrastructure (including USDS operations) to ensure strict adherence to cross-border data privacy and compliance standards.

Skills

SQL

Python/R

Education

Bachelor's degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, data analytics, or engineering

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking an Anti-Fraud Data Scientist to mitigate fraud, abuse, and policy violations on TikTok Shop. You will develop risk strategies, build real-time ML models, and deploy automated alerts while ensuring privacy compliance and user experience are balanced with business growth.

You will partner with cross-functional teams to measure security vs. user friction through experiments and leverage AI workflows to optimize risk detection capabilities across the platform.