Machine Learning Engineer Graduate (TikTok Trust and Safety) - 2027 Start
- Locations
- San Jose, United States of America · Seattle, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $128,000 – $256,000 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 $130k to $200k at an employer this size. 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: an early-career or graduate seat · posts $128k to $256k base at a company over 5,000 · the title reads as P2.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Machine learning engineering for trust and safety on a short-video platform, building computer vision, NLP and multimodal models that detect content and behaviors violating community guidelines and related regulations. The work sits in the algorithm team, which builds the models that protect the platform and its users.
What you'd do
- Team up with product staff to set business goals and guide trust and safety strategy.
- Work with engineering teams to ship machine learning models and map out how models run online.
- Build serving pipelines that run models at scale.
- Work with data scientists to identify key challenges and propose data-driven strategies.
- Develop unimodal and multimodal content classifiers and other content understanding techniques.
- Apply reinforcement learning and large language models to content understanding problems.
What it asks for
- Degree in computer science or a related field, finished or nearly finished, at bachelor's or master's level.
- Strong coding skills.
- Curiosity about new technologies and entrepreneurship, with good communication and teamwork skills.
Worth knowing
- Onboarding date must be committed 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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