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. In this team, you will have a unique opportunity to: - Have first-hand experience contributing to TikTok's key security initiatives. - Build scalable, resilient, intelligent integrity solutions that are also privacy-safe and user-friendly. - Solve product and technical challenges that are often first-seen and highly adversarial. Both quick short term tactics and long term strategical moves are expected at various paces. - Be part of a diverse and enthusiastic global workforce, grow with and learn from security and integrity experts across Asia, Europe, North America, etc. We are looking for talented individuals to join us for an internship in 2026. Internships at TikTok aim to offer students industry exposure and hands-on experience. Watch your ambitions become reality as your inspiration brings infinite opportunities at TikTok. 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. Successful candidates must be able to commit to at least 3 months long internship period. Successful candidates must be able to commit to either of the following Internships - From January to June - From May to August (Summer) Job Responsibilities: - Build machine learning solutions to respond to and mitigate business risks in ByteDance products/platforms. Such risks include and are not limited to abusive accounts, fake engagements, spammy redirection, scraping, fraud, etc. - Improve modeling infrastructures, labels, features and algorithms towards robustness, automation and generalization, reduce modeling and operational load on risk adversaries and new product/risk ramping-ups. - Level up risk machine learning excellence on privacy/compliance, interpretability, risk perception and analysis.
Minimum Qualifications - Undergraduate or Postgraduate currently pursuing a Degree/Master in Software Development, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline - Solid engineering skills. Proficiency in at least two of: Linux, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Storm. - Strong machine learning background. Proficiency or publications in modern machine learning theories and applications such as deep neural nets, transfer/multi-task learning, reinforcement learning, time series or graph unsupervised learning. - Ability to think critically, objectively, rationally. Reason and communicate in result-oriented, data-driven manner. High autonomy. Preferred Qualifications - Research experience in one or more of the following fields: applied machine learning, machine learning infrastructure, large-scale recommendation system, market-facing machine learning product. - Strong publications record in top conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR, etc) and journals (e.g., TPAMI, JMLR) - Track record of high impact research By submitting an application for this role, you accept and agree to our global applicant privacy policy, which may be accessed here: https://careers.tiktok.com/legal/privacy. If you have any questions, please reach out to us at apac-earlycareers@tiktok.com
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