Operations Specialist (Red Team) – TikTok Safety Products

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

Red team work testing global content security systems from an attacker's perspective to find vulnerabilities and recommend fixes, across cultural and linguistic contexts. Sits in TikTok Safety Products, covering signal detection, external escalations, intelligence-driven investigations, and AI-powered risk assessment.

• AI misuse and jailbreaks

What you'd do

• Shape risk assessment processes, playbooks, and standard procedures for signal detection, escalations, and investigations.
• Maintain the Red Team Risk Taxonomy and forecast emerging risks from regulation, new technology, and AIGC.
• Run proactive threat hunts and in-depth risk investigations using enforcement gaps, escalations, sentiment, and abuse intelligence.
• Build AI-driven risk assessment workflows covering agent capabilities, prompt writing, and human review loops.
• Manage outside threat intelligence relationships with security vendors, ethical hacker communities, and industry peers.
• Work with Product, Policy, Data Science, and Operations to turn risk findings into scalable mitigations and closed-loop governance.

What it asks for

• Proven experience in Trust & Safety risk assessment, investigations, policy enforcement, or content moderation strategy.
• Background in online abuse mitigation, adversarial analysis, enforcement gap root-cause work, CTI, red teaming, pen testing, or security operations.
• Strong understanding of LLM and multimodal AI capabilities and limits, with hands-on prompt design and human-in-the-loop experience.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience building investigation dashboards and measuring risk metrics like miss rates.
• Proficiency in Chinese to communicate with internal stakeholders in China.
• Experience assessing deepfakes, AI-generated images, and synthetic audio/video risks (preferred).

Terms in this role

Red teaming.

Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.

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