Tech Lead, Machine Learning - Trust and Safety (Australia)

TikTok

4.5

(6)

Sydney, Australia

Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
  • We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
  • Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.
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    Position summary

    hm team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art computer vision and multimodality models and algorithms to protect our platform and users from the content and behaviors that violate community guidelines and related local regulations. With the continuous efforts from our team, TikTok Livestream is able to provide the best user experience and bring joy to everyone in the world.

    Job Description
    We are looking for a highly self-motivated research engineer to join our algo team. In our team, you will have the opportunity to participate in the development of the cutting-edge content understanding model to help improve the recognition ability of violated content in TikTok Livestream, and will also be responsible for optimizing our distributed model training framework continuously.

    As a tech lead - machine learning engineer, you will be driving resolution for one or more trust and safety domains, such as recommendation, CV, multimodality, LLM, etc. A successful candidate will have hands-on machine learning and software engineering experience. Also, you will take pride in working with other tech leads, product managers and business partners to identify and solve the most challenging safety and integrity problems in the internet scale.

    Responsibilities - What You'II Do
    • Build large-scale machine learning models and deploy them to the online trust and safety system
    • Develop short-term and long-term machine learning and engineering strategies, define vertical domain's priority and success metrics with our motivated engineers
    • Identify tech direction to continuously ship production and improve the ecosystem of our platform
    • Collaborate with the product team to define objectives and improve trust and safety strategy
    • Collaborate with data analysts to understand and find data patterns

    Qualifications

    • BS with 5+ years' industrial experience, or MS/PhD with 3+ years' relevant experience
    • Hands on experience in one or more of the following areas: machine learning, deep learning, pattern recognition, anomaly detection, data mining, computer vision, NLP or content understanding
    • Experience in trust and safety is a plus
    • Good programming skills in Python or similar languages
    • Experience in working on large scale production machine learning systems
    • Good communication and teamwork skills, passionate about learning new techniques and taking on challenging problems

    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.

    In the spirit of reconciliation, TikTok acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.

    Why you should apply for a job to TikTok:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.5/5 in supportive management
  • 100% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 100% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.
  • Employee well-being is supported via hybrid work, short-term counseling through our EAP and a premium subscription to Headspace.
  • We embrace diversity across all dimensions and provide employees with 9 employee resource groups globally, including our WOMEN ERG.
  • Comprehensive parental leave policy as well as fertility treatment through healthcare providers with a $20,000 lifetime maximum.