Responsibilities
About the Team
The Responsible Recommendation System team is dedicated to safeguarding TikTok's ecosystem and ensuring product success by addressing critical business challenges with innovative AI solutions. The team innovates in content understanding, recommendation systems and agentic AI techniques to improve TikTok content safety and ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and deploy an agentic AI system aimed at addressing key risk management challenges and driving innovative product directions.
- Translate complex business problems into robust, production-ready AI solutions using cutting-edge machine learning techniques.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate research insights and practical applications into our product roadmap.
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- Drive rigorous data-driven analyses to continuously optimize system performance and effectively mitigate risks.
- Conceptualize practical problems and leverage advanced LLM technologies to develop solutions that have a real-world impact.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field (advanced degree preferred) with significant experience in machine learning and system design.
- Strong programming skills (e.g., Python, C++, etc.) and a proven ability to design scalable, production-grade systems.
- Solid background in information retrieval, natural language processing, and data mining
- Experience with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) or LLM applications is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, delivering innovative machine learning solutions under tight deadlines.
- Excellent problem-solving and conceptualization skills with the aptitude to translate real-world challenges into cutting-edge AI solutions.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $194000 - $355000 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.