Senior Machine Learning Manager, TikTok Trust and Safety
- Location
- San Jose, United States of America
- Salary range
- USD $308,000 – $588,000 base
- Workplace
- In office
- Level
- Manager
- Job family
- Data & Analytics
- 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 across TikTok's platform, at very large data volumes. The Trust and Safety team designs next-generation LLM-based moderation, works with engineering on deploying models at scale, and sets trust and safety strategy with product teams.
What you'd do
- Design next-generation LLM-based moderation solutions
- Build highly scalable classifiers, predictive models and algorithms
- Partner with engineers to build model pipelines and ship them to production at scale
- Work with product teams to set objectives and sharpen trust and safety strategy
- Work with data analysts to find data patterns
What it asks for
- Prior experience managing people for at least one year
- Proficiency in PyTorch and TensorFlow
- Strong Python skills and solid grounding in data structures and algorithms
- Experience with LLM, multimodal LLM and downstream applications (preferred)
- Experience in trust and safety areas (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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