Research Scientist Graduate (Privacy Innovation Lab) - 2025 Start (PhD)

Responsibilities

TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. TikTok's global headquarters are in Los Angeles and Singapore, and its offices include New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us
Creation is the core of TikTok's purpose. Our platform is built to help imaginations thrive. This is doubly true of the teams that make TikTok possible.
Together, we inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we all believe in and aim towards achieving every day.
To us, every challenge, no matter how difficult, is an opportunity; to learn, to innovate, and to grow as one team. Status quo? Never. Courage? Always.
At TikTok, we create together and grow together. That's how we drive impact - for ourselves, our company, and the communities we serve.
Join us.

At TikTok, we treat privacy as our first priority in our product design and implementation. Privacy is not just about regulation compliance, but also about a more trusted way to enable technology innovation by respecting users’ privacy choices!

Privacy Innovation (PI) Lab is established to explore the next frontier of privacy technology and theory in the digitalized world. We provide key insights and technical solutions on privacy-related innovation for all TikTok’s products. Furthermore, we also collaborate with worldwide technical and academic communities to build an open ecosystem to promote privacy friendly digital experience.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2025.

We will prioritize candidates who are able to commit to these start dates. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. We encourage you to apply early.

Candidates can apply for a maximum of TWO positions and will be considered for jobs in the order you applied for. The application limit is applicable to TikTok and its affiliates' jobs globally.

Responsibilities:
- Design and execute technical and theoretic research on the critical industrial challenges of privacy innovation.
- Work with product teams to understand key privacy requirements from our product family and provide technical consulting on privacy related features.
- Work with engineering teams to apply technical achievements from our research to product prototyping.
- Advocate research findings to diverse audiences through written reports and verbal presentations.
- Represent PI Lab and our work in external technical and academic communities.

Qualifications

- PhD in Privacy, Security, Machine Learning, or 5+ years of experience working on related research.
- Demonstrated expertise in measurable AI privacy including quantized privacy risk measurement, differential privacy, membership inference attack, interpretable AI, AI fairness, synthetic data generation for AI, adversarial machine learning, etc.
- Proven records of publications and awards in top security and other related academic conferences.
- Ability to develop research questions regarding the critical industrial challenges of privacy innovation, and knowledge of using technical tools for the required experiments and proof-of-concept prototyping.
- Ability to work globally and collaboratively within a team and with external researchers.

TikTok is committed to creating an inclusive space where employees are valued for their skills, experiences, and unique perspectives. Our platform connects people from across the globe and so does our workplace. At TikTok, our mission is to inspire creativity and bring joy. To achieve that goal, we are committed to celebrating our diverse voices and to creating an environment that reflects the many communities we reach. We are passionate about this and hope you are too.

TikTok is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our recruitment processes for candidates with disabilities, pregnancy, sincerely held religious beliefs or other reasons protected by applicable laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at https://shorturl.at/cdpT2

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (annually)

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $137750 - $237500 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.​

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