Machine Learning Engineer (LLM/VLM) - Trust and Safety (Australia)

TikTok

Location
Sydney, Australia
Salary range
Not stated
Workplace
In office
Level
Individual contributor
Job family
Engineering
Posted
Recently

The T&S Network estimates this role to be P2, Professional. We don't yet know typical pay for this level in Australia. Most of our pay data comes from US roles. If you work in Trust & Safety in Australia, add your pay to help others. 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.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: asks for 3+ 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.

Builds machine learning systems that detect and remove harmful content for TikTok's Trust & Safety team, often before it reaches the general community. The work covers content safety across TikTok's applications, with models deployed directly to the global platform.

What you'd do

  • Build content safety systems for TikTok's global platform.
  • Develop scalable classifiers, tools, models and algorithms using machine learning, computer vision and data mining.
  • Improve trust and safety strategy and model performance against product objectives.
  • Partner with other teams to protect TikTok across markets.
  • Collaborate with data analysts to find data patterns.

What it asks for

  • Proficiency in PyTorch or TensorFlow and in Python or Java.
  • Strong data structures and algorithms background.
  • Good communication and teamwork skills.
  • Experience with pre-training foundation models, efficient training, or downstream NLP/CV/video applications (preferred).
  • Publications in top AI conferences or journals such as KDD, NeurIPS, CVPR or ACL (preferred).
  • Trust and safety experience (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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