TikTok · 4 weeks ago
Machine Learning Engineer, Risk Control - USDS
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$137K/yr - $360K/yrTikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to build solutions that mitigate business risks on their platforms, focusing on enhancing modeling infrastructures and improving risk machine learning excellence.
Content CreatorsContent DiscoveryMedia and EntertainmentSocial MediaVideo
Responsibilities
Build machine learning solutions to respond to and mitigate business risks in products/platforms. Such risks include and are not limited to abusive accounts, fake engagements, spammy redirection, scraping, fraud, etc
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
Qualification
Required
Master's or higher 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
Preferred
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, and have high autonomy
Benefits
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) savings plan with company match
Paid parental leave
Short-term and long-term disability coverage
Life insurance
Wellbeing benefits
10 paid holidays per year
10 paid sick days per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure)
Company
TikTok
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
Founded in 2003
10001+ employees
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CEO
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