Senior Data Scientist, TikTok Risk Issues - San Jose

Responsibilities

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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.

The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team is missioned to :

• Protect 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 BRIC team works to minimize the damage of inauthentic behaviors on TikTok platforms (e.g. TikTok, CapCut, Resso, Lark), 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 (ads or e-commerce), 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.

Our challenges are not some regular day-to-day technical puzzles You'll be part of a team that's developing novel solutions to first-seen challenges of a non-stop evolvement of a phenomenal product eco-system.

The work needs to be fast, transferrable, while still down to the ground to making quick and solid differences.

Responsibilities

Build rules, algorithms and machine learning models, to respond to and mitigate business risks in TikTok products / platforms.

Such risks include and are not limited to abusive accounts, fake engagements, spammy redirection, scraping, fraud, etc.

• Analyze business and security data, uncover evolving attack motion, identify weaknesses and opportunities in risk defense solutions, explore new space from the discoveries.
• Define risk control measurements. Quantify, generalize and monitor risk related business and operational metrics. Align risk teams and their stakeholders on risk control numeric goals, promote impact-oriented, data-driven data science practices for risks.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications :

• Solid data science skills. Proficiency in statistical analytical tools, such as SQL, R and Python.
• Familarity with machine learning or social / content online platform analytics. Bonus given to proficiency in modern machine learning applications.
• Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally. Reason and communicate in result-oriented, data-driven manner. High autonomy.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Bachelor or degrees above in computer science, statistics, math, internet security or other relevant STEM majors (e.g. finance if applying for financial fraud roles).
• 3 years of industry experience in a software development environment.

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