Protect TikTok users, including content consumers, creators, and advertisers, by securing platform health and community experience authenticity. Minimize the damage of inauthentic behaviors on TikTok platforms across various risk areas.
Requirements
- Proficiency in data science analytical tools, such as SQL, R and Python.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Detect abnormal changes in metrics and be able to build processes to analyze the root cause of such changes;
- Design and build A/B experiments to satisfy various business needs.
- Build rules and models to respond to and mitigate business risks for different TikTok products.
- Own technical measurement and evaluation of the risk level of a specific business area (e.g. short video platform, user growth, live streaming, etc).
Other
- Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Graduate in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
- Able to commit to working for 12 weeks during the Summer of 2026.
- Ability to think critically and to formulate solutions to problems in a clear and concise way.
- Strong communication and excellent teamwork skills; being agile and a self-starter.
- Passion about techniques and solving challenging problems.
- Graduating December 2026 onwards with the intent to return to degree program after the completion of the internship.
