Sr Data Scientist, Risk Data Mining - Anti Automation Solutions

Company:  TikTok
Location: San Jose
Closing Date: 22/10/2024
Salary: £125 - £150 Per Annum
Hours: Full Time
Type: Permanent
Job Requirements / Description

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. Our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok has global offices including Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Mumbai, Singapore, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

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

  1. Protect TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers;
  2. Secure platform health and community experience authenticity;
  3. 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, covering multiple community and business risk areas such as account integrity, engagement authenticity, anti-spam, API abuse, growth fraud, live streaming security, and financial safety.

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. The work needs to be fast and transferrable while still making quick and solid differences.

Responsibilities:
  1. Build rules, algorithms, and machine learning models to respond to and mitigate business risks in TikTok products/platforms, including abusive accounts, fake engagements, spammy redirection, scraping, and fraud.
  2. Analyze business and security data, uncover evolving attack motions, identify weaknesses and opportunities in risk defense solutions.
  3. Define risk control measurements. Quantify, generalize, and monitor risk-related business and operational metrics.

Qualifications
  1. Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, statistics, math, information security, or other relevant STEM majors.
  2. Solid data science skills. Proficiency in statistical analytical tools, such as SQL and Python.
  3. Familiarity with machine learning or social/content online platform analytics. Bonus for proficiency in modern machine learning applications, risk data mining, and risk control strategies.
  4. Ability to think critically, objectively, and rationally. High autonomy.

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. 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

Job Information:

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $176356 - $329333 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives and restricted stock units.

Our company benefits are designed to convey company culture and values, to create an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to support our employees to give their best in both work and life. We offer the following benefits to eligible employees:

  • 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and offer a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
  • Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life, and AD&D insurance plans.
  • 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
  • 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
  • Mental and emotional health benefits through our EAP and Lyra.
  • 401K company match, gym, and cellphone service reimbursements.

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

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