AI Model Reinforcement Arabic Speaking Graduate (Safety Model Operations) - 2027 Start
- Location
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Salary range
- Not stated
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- T&S Operations
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P1, Junior / Specialist. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Malaysia. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Malaysia, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: reads queue health from the metrics and knows which ones lie, balances accuracy, throughput and wellbeing as one problem, and runs a shift against demand that spikes without warning.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: an early-career or graduate seat · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Builds and maintains the machine learning safety models and operational processes behind TikTok's Trust & Safety systems, which identify harmful content across regions. The role is a graduate position on the Safety Model Operations team, focused on training and evaluation data quality for large models, with Arabic-market liaison.
What you'd do
- Review data outputs against quality standards, flag issues, and close the loop on corrections
- Work through hard edge cases and convert the calls into rules and reference material the team can reuse
- Track quality performance, find root causes, and drive fixes in production processes
- Coordinate with production, product, algorithm, and strategy teams to keep the standards, production, acceptance, and feedback loop aligned
- Liaise daily with the local team in the Arabic market and communicate business information accurately
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree, with a preference for fields like law, philosophy, economics, journalism, languages, or social science
- Strong English across listening, speaking, reading, and writing, able to follow English video and text closely (IELTS 7.5, TOEFL 105, or equivalent)
- Arabic proficiency, required for daily liaison with the Arabic market
- Prior work in data quality, moderation, compliance, content ops, AI data, or annotation through an internship or project (preferred)
- Familiarity with Excel and common data-processing tools
- Regular hands-on use of major chatbots and foundation models like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, with a sense of what they can't do (preferred)
- Clear structured reasoning, judgment, and communication, with a detail-oriented eye for high-quality data
Worth knowing
- Must be able to start onboarding by the end of the year
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About TikTok

The employer
About TikTok
Social platforms · Media and streaming · Culver City, CA · 50,001 to 100,000 people · Founded 2016
Short-form video platform, run by ByteDance outside the US and by a joint venture of Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX inside it since 2026.
Moderation, reported
TikTok filed 37.7M moderation decisions with the European Commission for May 2026.
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