Trend Detection & Safety Architect (US Market)

TikTok Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 99,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) match

Paid parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Wellbeing benefits

Paid holidays

Paid sick days

Paid Personal Time

Job summary

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Trend Detection Specialist within the USDS Policy Implementation team. You will proactively identify emerging threats and abuse patterns on our US platform, collaborating with Engineering to turn findings into scalable detection systems while balancing safety with freedom of expression.

You will lead risk assessments, design automated detection workflows using LLMs, and partner with Product teams to ensure detection stays ahead of evolving threats in

Qualifications

• 3 years in Trust & Safety, Intelligence, or Content Policy with a focus on high-harm issues.
• Technical acumen: using LLMs or AI/ML tools to build automated solutions for data classification or trend identification.
• Product Savvy: experience working with Product/Engineering teams to build, test, or iterate on automated detection systems or safety tools.
• Investigative mindset: ability to connect disparate data points into a cohesive narrative.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive risk assessments and spearhead proactive trend detection initiatives for high-risk, USDS-led, or supported events.
• Partner closely with USDS Product teams to co-design and refine automated detection models targeting the U.S. market.
• Build and deploy automated workflows using LLMs to move narrative discovery from manual spot-checking to scalable, proactive detection.
• Use findings to provide high-quality signal and training data to Product to keep automated systems ahead of adversarial pivots.
• Support active US escalations by identifying secondary trends, coded language, and evolving narratives not yet caught by current systems.
• Generate actionable, data-driven intelligence aligned with quarterly business priorities and RFIs.
• Identify emerging slang, memes, and cultural shifts in the U.S. market to anticipate bypasses of safety filters.
• Map new patterns in high-harm violations to broaden safety coverage for the US market.
• Pull and synthesize data that validates emerging risks to justify new Product features or policy updates.
• Act as a technical subject matter expert for Policy, explaining model workings and gaps.

Skills

Trust & Safety experience

AI/ML tooling

Product/Engineering collaboration

Investigative mindset

Tools

SQL

Python

Job description

TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is seeking a Trend Detection Specialist within the USDS Policy Implementation team. You will proactively identify emerging threats and abuse patterns on our US platform, collaborating with Engineering to turn findings into scalable detection systems while balancing safety with freedom of expression.

You will lead risk assessments, design automated detection workflows using LLMs, and partner with Product teams to ensure detection stays ahead of evolving threats in