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TikTok ยท 2 days ago
Data Scientist, TikTok Risk
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$144K/yr - $240K/yr
2+ years exp
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Hiring Manager
Mini Zhang
Insider Connection @TikTok
Responsibilities
Build rules, algorithms and machine learning models, to respond to and mitigate business risks in TikTok products/platforms. Such risks include and are not limited to abusive accounts, fake engagements, spammy redirection, scraping, fraud, etc.
Analyze business and security data, uncover evolving attack motion, identify weaknesses and opportunities in risk defense solutions, explore new space from the discoveries.
Define risk control measurements. Quantify, generalize and monitor risk related business and operational metrics. Align risk teams and their stakeholders on risk control numeric goals, promote impact-oriented, data-driven data science practices for risks.
Qualification
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Required
Solid data science skills. Proficiency in statistical analytical tools, such as SQL, R and Python.
Familiarity with machine learning or social/content online platform analytics. Bonus given to proficiency in modern machine learning applications.
Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally. Reason and communicate in result-oriented, data-driven manner. High autonomy.
Preferred
Bachelor or degrees above in computer science, statistics, math, internet security or other relevant STEM majors (e.g. finance if applying for financial fraud roles).
2 years of industry experience in a software development environment.
Benefits
100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance
75% premium coverage for dependents
Health Savings Account (HSA) with company match
Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans
Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options
10 paid holidays per year
17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO)
10 paid sick days per year
12 weeks of paid Parental leave
8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability
Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra
401K company match
Gym and cellphone service reimbursements
Company
TikTok
TikTok is a short-video sharing app and social network platform that develops a lip-syncing video application to create videos. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
10,001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
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2022 (325)
2021 (211)
2020 (90)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Shou Zi Chew
CEO
Blake Chandlee
VP Global Business Solutions
Recent News
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