Responsibilities
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.
Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.
At TikTok, we treat privacy as our first priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users' privacy choices!
Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab is established to explore the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in the digitalized world.
We provide key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok's products. Furthermore, we also collaborate with worldwide technical and academic communities to build an open ecosystem to promote privacy friendly digital experience.
PI Lab is growing fast and seeking highly experienced, bright, and capable researchers and professionals to join our team.
As a member of PI Lab, you will have the opportunities to research advanced privacy technology and theory together with worldwide influential researchers, and to tackle the critical industrial challenges on privacy innovation serving billions of TikTok users by applying cutting-edge technology.
Responsibilities
- Design and execute technical and theoretic research on the critical industrial challenges on privacy innovation.
- Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from TikTok product family and provide technical consulting on privacy related features.
- Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
- Advocate for research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
- Represent PI Lab and our work in external technical and academic community.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements :
- PhD in Privacy, Security, Machine Learning, Cryptography, or a related field.
- Demonstrated expertise in privacy-enhanced techniques (PET) and related technical domains, including data and identity anonymization, differential privacy, secure multi-party computation, federated machine learning, on-device machine learning, interpretable AI, privacy-preserving technology for large language models (LLM) or foundation models, privacy-preserving regulation technology, etc.
- Proven records of publications and awards in top security and other related academic conferences.
- Ability to develop research questions from the critical industrial challenges on privacy innovation, and knowledge of using technical tools for the required experiments and proof-of-concept prototyping.
- Ability to work globally and collaboratively within a team and with external researchers.
TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives.
Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy.
To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach.
We are passionate about this and hope you are too.
TikTok 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.
If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https : / / shorturl.at / cdpT2
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