Search Security Strategy Intern - Content Safety & Risk

TikTok; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 28,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Day-one benefits

Paid holidays (10 days)

Job summary

TikTok is offering a 2027 Summer Search Security Strategy Operations Intern position in San Jose. The role focuses on building proactive detection, response, and intervention strategies for search-related public opinion and safety concerns.

Interns will learn to design and optimize systems, work with risk controls, and gain experience with large language models and content safety tools. The internship provides hands-on experience with the Safety Product team, inclusion of benefits, and

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master’s in computer science, statistics, information management, data science or a related discipline.
• Extremely sensitive and curious about content, public opinion and social hot topics, able to proactively explore and understand risks and logic behind various types of content.
• Possess basic knowledge of security link design, understand the full process from content triggering to intervention; able to quickly learn new knowledge and tools (such as large model applications) and apply them to practical work amid rapidly evolving business and emerging risks.

Responsibilities

• Public Opinion Detection: Participate in designing and continuously optimizing proactive detection, monitoring and early warning mechanisms for search-related public opinion, achieving early discovery, early analysis and early disposal.
• Intervention Strategy: Maintain customized public opinion intervention methods and platforms for search, including but not limited to: construction and operation of sensitive word library platforms, data training and evaluation of public opinion-oriented large models, as well as link design and effect review of intervention strategies.
• Emergency Response & Disposal: Be responsible for public opinion emergency response, conduct rapid and accurate intervention on sudden search security public opinion incidents, complete post-incident analysis and review, and promote systematic improvement.

Skills

Curiosity about content/public opinion

Learning agility

Security awareness

Education

Undergraduate or Master’s in CS/Statistics/Data Science

Tools

Large language model platforms

Sensitive word systems

Content review systems

Job description

TikTok is offering a 2027 Summer Search Security Strategy Operations Intern position in San Jose. The role focuses on building proactive detection, response, and intervention strategies for search-related public opinion and safety concerns.

Interns will learn to design and optimize systems, work with risk controls, and gain experience with large language models and content safety tools. The internship provides hands-on experience with the Safety Product team, inclusion of benefits, and