Responsibilities

About the Team The Safety Product (or Platform Responsibility) team is at the forefront of building and optimizing content safety systems. With a focus on optimizing and advancing content safety, we leverage advanced large language models to enhance review efficiency, risk control, and user trust. Working closely with business and technical stakeholders, we deliver scalable solutions that keep pace with rapid global growth. As a project intern, you will have the opportunity to engage in impactful short-term projects that provide you with a glimpse of professional real-world experience. You will gain practical skills through on-the-job learning in a fast-paced work environment and develop a deeper understanding of your career interests. 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. Responsibilities: 1. Risk Management - Mechanism Design: Participate in designing and optimizing proactive discovery, monitoring, and early-warning mechanisms for search-related risks. - Intervention Systems: Build and maintain customized intervention platforms and strategies for search, including but not limited to: sensitive keyword platform management, data training and evaluation for risk identification models, and designing intervention workflows. - Emergency Response: Execute rapid and precise intervention handling for sudden search safety incidents. Conduct post-incident analysis and reviews to drive systematic improvements. - Stress Testing & Fortification: Design and execute stress tests to simulate extreme scenarios, validating and strengthening the robustness of our safety systems. 2. Trending Project Support - Quality Control: Oversee, audit, and evaluate the quality of content review for trending topics, identifying potential risks and process gaps to drive improvements in standards. - Customized safety strategies: Develop tailored safety strategies (e.g., special monitoring for specific topics, unique display logic) and rapid intervention capabilities for the hotspots business, ensuring content is both fast-breaking and secure.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 1. Currently pursuing an Undergraduate/Master degree 2. Excellent Content Sense & Curiosity: A high sensitivity and curiosity for content, and social trends. You actively explore and understand the risks and context behind various content types. 3. Solid Operational Fundamentals: Basic knowledge of safety system design and content lifecycle (from trigger to intervention). Extremely detail-oriented, pragmatic, and a hands-on problem-solver. 4. Strong Learning Agility: Ability to quickly learn new knowledge and tools (e.g., LLM applications) and apply them to address evolving business needs and novel risks. 5. Resilience & Ownership: Excellent composure and problem-solving skills under high pressure. You take full ownership of your responsibilities and outcomes. Preferred Qualifications: 1. Prior experience in search, recommendation, news, content safety, or risk management operations at a major internet company. 2. Experience with sensitive word systems, content moderation systems, or policy platforms. 3. Experience participating in data training, evaluation, or application projects for large language models (LLMs). 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

Job Information

【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Hourly) - Campus Intern

The hourly rate range for this position in the selected city is $35- $35.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Interns have day one access to health insurance, life insurance, wellbeing benefits and more. Interns also receive 10 paid holidays per year and paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year). Interns who are not working 100% remote may also be eligible for housing allowance.

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.

About TikTok

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 we also have offices in New York City, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Why Join Us

Inspiring creativity is at the core of TikTok's mission. Our innovative product is built to help people authentically express themselves, discover and connect – and our global, diverse teams make that possible. Together, we create value for our communities, inspire creativity and bring joy - a mission we work towards every day.

We strive to do great things with great people. We lead with curiosity, humility, and a desire to make impact in a rapidly growing tech company. Every challenge is an opportunity to learn and innovate as one team. We're resilient and embrace challenges as they come. By constantly iterating and fostering an "Always Day 1" mindset, we achieve meaningful breakthroughs for ourselves, our company, and our users. When we create and grow together, the possibilities are limitless. Join us.

Diversity & Inclusion

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 Accommodation

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://tinyurl.com/RA-request

Search Safety Product Manager Project Intern

Tiktok-Safety Products-Search, 2025 Start, BS/MS

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