Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Risk Data Mining - USDS

TikTok; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 177,688 - 341,734; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid parental leave

Life insurance

Job summary

A leading social media company in Seattle is searching for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to build and improve machine learning solutions that manage business risks. The ideal candidate should hold a Master's degree in computer science and have solid engineering skills, along with strong proficiency in machine learning theories. This role offers a competitive salary range and a variety of benefits from day one.

Qualifications

• Master or above degree in computer science, statistics, or other machine-learning-heavy majors.
• Solid engineering skills with proficiency in Linux, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, or Storm.
• Strong machine learning background with publications in modern theories.
• Ability to think critically, rationally, and in a data-driven manner.

Responsibilities

• Build machine learning solutions to mitigate business risks.
• Improve modeling infrastructures and algorithms for robustness.
• Uplevel machine learning excellence on privacy and compliance.

Skills

Machine learning theories and applications

Proficiency in Linux

Hadoop

Hive

Spark

Storm

Critical thinking

Education

Master's degree in computer science or related fields

Job description

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Risk Data Mining - USDS

The USDS-Platform and Community Integrity (PaCI) team is missioned to:

• Protect U.S. TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers;
• Secure platform health and community experience authenticity;
• Build infrastructures, platforms and technologies, as well as to collaborate with many cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

The PaCI team works to minimize the damage of inauthentic behaviors on TikTok platforms, covering multiple classical and novel community and business risk areas such as account integrity, engagement authenticity, anti-spam, API abuse, growth fraud, live streaming security and financial safety, etc.

In this team, you'll have a unique opportunity to have first-hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key security initiatives, especially in building scalable and robust, intelligent and privacy-safe, secure, and product-friendly systems and solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Build machine learning solutions to respond to and mitigate business risks in TikTok products/platforms.
• Improve modeling infrastructures, labels, features and algorithms towards robustness, automation and generalization, reduce modeling and operational load on risk adversaries and new product/risk ramping-ups.
• Uplevel risk machine learning excellence on privacy/compliance, interpretability, risk perception and analysis.

Qualifications:

• Master or above degree in computer science, statistics, or other relevant, machine-learning-heavy majors.
• Solid engineering skills. Proficiency in at least two of: Linux, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Storm.
• Strong machine learning background. Proficiency or publications in modern machine learning theories and applications such as deep neural nets, transfer/multi-task learning, reinforcement learning, time series or graph unsupervised learning.
• Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally. Reason and communicate in result-oriented, data-driven manner. High autonomy.

About USDS:

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. U.S. Data Security (“USDS”) is a subsidiary of TikTok in the U.S. This new, security-first division was created to bring heightened focus and governance to our data protection policies and content assurance protocols to keep U.S. users safe.

Data Security Statement:

This role requires the ability to work with and support systems designed to protect sensitive data and information. As such, this role will be subject to strict national security-related screening.

Why Join Us:

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible.

Diversity & Inclusion:

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.

USDS Reasonable Accommodation:

USDS is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws.

Job Information:

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $177,688 - $341,734 annually.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others.