Product Security Operation Specialist - AI

SecOps Validation Team (STOV) is responsible for the tools and technologies that support the TikTok infrastructure. STOV oversees technical validation, security operations, and drives engineering enhancements, including the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of security technologies across various domains. The role will be responsible for design and development of Product Security technical controls required by security policy and regulations. The validation targets include product security of TikTok product family and Secure SDLC process. It will provide a solid foundation to evaluate maturity for TikTok product family and Secure SDLC. The role will operate and maintain the Large Language Model (LLM) product security validation system and knowledge base.

Responsibilities
- Responsible for optimizing and fine tuning of the output of AI driven product security validation platform, ensuring the outputs are safe, reliable, and policy-compliance
- Implement and improve prompt engineering of the AI validation platform, operating on filters to reduce hallucinations and mitigate error outputs
- Operate and maintain the AI-driven security requirement generation system to ensure high-quality output for product teams, define metrics and benchmarks to evaluate model output quality
- Expand and manage the security knowledge base, incorporating the latest threat intelligence, compliance standards, and security best practices.
- Validate system-generated requirements to ensure alignment with security best practices and compliance standards and TikTok specific security policies/standards
- Collaborate with AI/ML engineers to integrate domain-specific security knowledge into the model pipeline.
- Train and guide team members on security frameworks, standards, and tools.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with AI/ML operations and applications, with operational knowledge of large language models (LLMs) is a big plus
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, AI/ML, Cybersecurity, or related fields
- 3+ years of experience in cybersecurity technologies or operations, including areas such as penetration testing, secure SDLC, security development, compliance, and governance
- Familiarity with LLMs and techniques like fine tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
- Operation knowledge on vector databases and text embedding models
- Solid experience in data engineering workflows
- Proven experience in validating and operationalizing AI systems in a security context.
- Experience creating and maintaining expert knowledge bases
- Strong experience in risk management and compliance standards for AI-driven products
- Certifications such as CISSP, CSSLP, CEH, or equivalent.

Job Information

[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $147200 - $269800 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;

2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and

3. Exercising sound judgment.