AI Model Reinforcement Mandarin 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 models and operational processes behind TikTok's Trust & Safety systems, which detect harmful content across regions. Within that, the work is data quality for large-model training and evaluation, setting the standards and judgment rules that labeled data is held to. The team sits in Safety Model Operations.
What you'd do
- Contribute to the rules that define good training and evaluation data and how it gets accepted.
- Review data outputs against those standards, flag issues, and follow corrections through to close.
- Work through complex, ambiguous, and edge cases, and turn the outcomes into reusable judgment rules.
- Track quality performance, find root causes, and push improvements in production processes.
- Coordinate with production, product, algorithm, and strategy teams to keep standards, production, acceptance, and feedback aligned.
What it asks for
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Strong English across listening, speaking, reading, and writing, able to follow English video and text accurately (IELTS 7.5, TOEFL 105, or equivalent).
- Mandarin proficiency required for daily liaison with the local team.
- Prior internship or project work in data quality, moderation, compliance, content ops, AI data, or labeling (preferred).
- Familiarity with Excel and common data-processing tools (preferred).
- Hands-on use of mainstream foundation-model products and a basic sense of AI capability limits (preferred).
Worth knowing
- Graduate role with an onboarding date required 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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