Senior Machine Learning Engineer, TikTok Trust and Safety

TikTok

Location
Seattle, United States of America
Salary range
USD $207,480 – $368,220 base
Workplace
In office
Level
Senior / Staff IC
Job family
Engineering
Posted
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The T&S Network estimates this role to be P3, Senior. The typical base salary for that level in Safety Engineering & Data Science is $190k to $260k at an employer this size in Seattle. 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.

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Why this level

Estimated from the posting rather than stated by the employer: the title reads as P3 · asks for 3+ years · posts $207k to $368k base at a company over 5,000 in Seattle.

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The role, in T&S terms

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

Builds machine learning models and systems that detect and defend against internet abuse and fraud on a large short-video platform. The team sits in the Trust and Safety R&D group and works on the platform's moderation systems, including LLM-based safety models deployed to the global user base.

What you'd do

  • Own a sub-module of the moderation system or a research direction, including LLM applications in safety.
  • Design next-generation moderation systems using new technologies with team members.
  • Build neural network and LLM-based models to address online safety problems on the platform.
  • Work with data analysts to find and understand patterns in platform data.

What it asks for

  • 3+ years in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, or content understanding.
  • Deep learning model training, serving, and optimization across CV, NLP, or neural network work.
  • Proficiency with PyTorch and TensorFlow.
  • Hands-on experience with CV, NLP, multimodal, active learning, LLMs, or recommendation systems.
  • Strong coding skills in Python or similar languages.
  • Experience with large-scale online machine learning platforms (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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