(General Hire) Multi-modal Machine Learning Engineer - Trust and Safety
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $162,000 – $387,600 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Individual contributor
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $150k to $220k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. Key skills at this level: builds and ships detection or enforcement systems in production, evaluates a classifier on the metric that matches the harm, not on accuracy, and works with labeled data of uneven and adversarial quality.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 2+ years · posts $162k to $388k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Builds machine learning models and serving systems that moderate harmful content across TikTok's global platform, at the scale of billions of users and a very large volume of platform data. The work sits in the Trust and Safety team, which is there to solve safety and integrity problems at internet scale.
What you'd do
- Lead and build content understanding models used for content moderation.
- Build classifiers that work on text, images, or video alone or combined, plus graph and representation learning models and LLM-based methods.
- Deploy machine learning models directly to the global platform and design online model workflows.
- Implement serving pipelines that run at scale.
- Work with product teams to define business objectives and shape trust and safety strategy.
- Work with data scientists to identify key challenges and propose data-driven strategies.
What it asks for
- BS or MS in computer science, statistics, operations research, applied math, physics, or a similar quantitative field.
- 2+ years of related experience.
- Hands-on experience in machine learning (CV, NLP, multimodal, graph, or LLM), statistical models, or applied mathematical methods.
- Strong coding skills, especially in Python or similar languages.
- Ability to communicate clearly and work well on a team.
- Experience with LLM, multimodal modeling, or representation learning (preferred).
- Knowing how content understanding and moderation create business value (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
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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