Machine Learning Engineer Graduate, Trust and Safety, USDS - 2025 Start (MS)

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Graduate for their Trust and Safety team. This role involves building machine learning models to identify and defend against internet abuse and fraud, collaborating with various teams to enhance safety and integrity on the platform. Responsibilities Play an important role in building trust and safety machine learning model Work on highly-scalable classifiers, predictive models and algorithms in big data mining, computer vision, NLP and other domains Work with engineering teams to implement model pipeline and deploy the service at scale Collaborate with a product team to define objectives and improve trust and safety strategy Collaborate with data scientists to understand and find data patterns Skills Master's in Computer Science, Engineering, Operations Research, or related fields Graduate with a background in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline Thorough understanding of data structures and algorithms, with excellent problem-solving ability Deep Understanding of machine learning, statistics, scaling distributed computing, and big data engineering Demonstrated software engineering experience from previous internship, work experience, coding competitions, or publications Internship experience or research experience, especially in natural language processing, fraud detection, or responsible AI, integrity, or trust and safety Curiosity toward new technologies and entrepreneurship High levels of creativity and quick problem-solving capabilities 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 Overview TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is Company H1B Sponsorship TikTok has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 979 in 2025, 601 in 2024, 387 in 2023, 322 in 2022, 133 in 2021, 72 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.