Software Engineer, Intelligence Graduate (TikTok BRIC) - 2026 Start (BS/MS)

Responsibilities

The Business Risk Integrated Control (BRIC) team of TikTok, is missioned to:
- Protect TikTok users, including and beyond content consumers, creators, advertisers.
- Secure platform health and authenticity of community experience .
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to improve TikTok infrastructures, services, tools and algorithms, towards a higher standard of privacy and security.

The BRIC team works to measure and minimize the damage implied by inauthentic behaviors on TikTok and its extended platforms, covering multiple classical and novel integrity/security areas such as fake accounts, fake traffic, spam, scraping, cyberbullying, live room risks, incentive fraud, monetization abuse, etc.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at TikTok.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Candidates can apply to a maximum of two positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you apply. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis - we encourage you to apply early.

Job Responsibilities:
- Research underground industry chains and technology, risk control, innovative technologies on defense and attacking
- Following the latest security dynamism globally, responding and technical analyzing with security events timely.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications
- Final year or recent graduate with a background in computer science, statistics, or other relevant, machine-learning-heavy majors.
- Familiarity with underground industry chains, attacking technical mechanisms and details with independent capability to analyze risk impact on business.
- Familiarity with basic strategies and mechanisms of risk control with capability for defense and attacking.
- Practical experience of programming, possess solid backend development skills, able to handle massive intelligence data and proficient in (at least one): Java, Objective-C, Swift, C/C++. With solid programming skills and good coding habits

Preferred Qualification
- Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally. Reason and communicate in result-oriented, data-driven manner. High autonomy.

For TikTok
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