ML Engineer: AI Safety & Governance Guardrails

TikTok USDS Joint Venture; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 178,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer - AI Safety to design and operate the technical guardrails ensuring the integrity of TikTok’s GPAI and recommendation systems. You will build high-performance engines to audit, evaluate, and mitigate risk in real-time and scale automated safety frameworks.

Join a team focused on safety, bias mitigation, and explainability across one of the world’s most sophisticated algorithmic ecosystems, with on-site work in Seattle as part

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
• 2+ years of production-level software development experience (Go, Python, or C++).
• Experience with Distributed Systems and high-volume ML data pipelines (e.g., Spark, Flink, or Kafka).
• Strong grasp of Data Structures, Algorithms, and ML fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Automated Safety Evaluation: Scale high-throughput evaluation engines to benchmark LLM and Recommendation Model outputs against safety, bias, and accuracy protocols.
• Adversarial Robustness: Build and maintain continuous monitoring frameworks to identify vulnerabilities in recommendation logic and model behavior.
• Governance-as-Code: Architect metadata frameworks and control planes for ML pipelines, ensuring data and weights adhere to safety constraints.
• Real-time Mitigation: Develop low-latency safety filters and circuit breakers for real-time recommendation streams with minimal latency impact.
• Observability & Lineage: Create centralized platforms providing real-time observability into model decisions and auditable promotions.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

Distributed Systems

ML fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/ML

Tools

Spark

Flink

Kafka

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Machine Learning Engineer - AI Safety to design and operate the technical guardrails ensuring the integrity of TikTok’s GPAI and recommendation systems. You will build high-performance engines to audit, evaluate, and mitigate risk in real-time and scale automated safety frameworks.

Join a team focused on safety, bias mitigation, and explainability across one of the world’s most sophisticated algorithmic ecosystems, with on-site work in Seattle as part