Senior Machine Learning Manager, TikTok Trust and Safety

TikTok

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.

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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.

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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 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

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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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