Data Scientist - Trust & Safety

TikTok

Location
Singapore
Salary range
Not stated
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Data & Analytics
Posted
Recently

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Singapore. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Singapore, add your pay to help others. Key skills at this level: owns a detection system end to end, including its drift and its retraining, designs for adversarial pressure rather than for a static distribution, and sets evaluation methodology others in the company adopt.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 5+ years · the title reads as P2.

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The role, in T&S terms

Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.

Data science work for a Trust & Safety team at a large short-video platform, using data to find insights, diagnose problems and build safety strategy. The team partners with operations, policy, product and engineering across regions to detect and reduce platform safety risks.

What you'd do

  • Analyze big, messy datasets to back project delivery and longer-range planning
  • Design and monitor core safety metrics and run root cause analysis on their drivers
  • Build heuristics from data to proactively detect and disrupt safety incidents
  • Develop metrics and visualization tools to assess platform risk and safety strategy impact
  • Give stakeholders data-based recommendations and turn findings into stories that drive action
  • Work closely with the global Trust and Safety team on the direction of safety work

What it asks for

  • Five or more years doing data science, analytics or quantitative analysis work
  • Hands-on experience with SQL, ETL, R or Python, Tableau and Excel
  • Experience building data infrastructure and reporting solutions
  • Experience designing ML/AI solutions for prediction, optimization or segmentation, with evaluation for error and bias
  • Degree in a quantitative discipline such as statistics, economics, computer science, mathematics or engineering
  • Experience on online content platforms, in Trust & Safety or in risk management (preferred)
  • Experience working with international partners across time zones (preferred)

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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

Company profile

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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