Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager - TikTok Trust & Safety
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $308,000 – $588,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- Engineering
- Posted
- Recently
The T&S Network estimates this role to be M4, Senior Manager. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $240k to $340k at an employer this size in the San Francisco Bay Area. 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.
Why this level
Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as M4 · asks for 5+ years · posts $308k to $588k base at a company over 5,000 in the San Francisco Bay Area · manages people.
The role, in T&S terms
Written by the T&S Network from TikTok's posting.
Builds machine learning models and systems that moderate harmful content on TikTok's platform at very large scale. The Trust and Safety team's work centers on designing LLM-based moderation solutions and classifiers, and it sits within a fast-growing team responsible for protecting users from negative content.
What you'd do
- Design next-generation LLM-based moderation solutions.
- Build highly scalable classifiers, predictive models and algorithms.
- Partner with engineers to turn model pipelines into services that run at scale.
- Work with product teams to set goals and sharpen trust and safety strategy.
- Work with data analysts to find and understand data patterns.
- Manage people as a people manager.
What it asks for
- At least 1 year of people management experience.
- Working knowledge of deep learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.
- Solid coding in Python or Java, with strong grasp of data structures and algorithms.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Experience in trust and safety areas (preferred).
- Skill in LLM, multimodal LLM and downstream applications (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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