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San Jose, CA
Internship
Onsite
$45/hr - $45/hr
Intern
TikTok is a leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Data Scientist Intern to join their Privacy and Data Protection Office team in 2025. The role involves utilizing big data techniques to conduct data investigations, develop scalable data solutions, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance privacy and data protection efforts.
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- Work as Centralized Data Experts (CDE) to conduct impact sizing analysis during critical privacy incident investigation and response to data requests from media or regulators.
- Design and build systematic data solutions and standardized data runbooks to improve efficiency and ensure accuracy for incident and inquiry response.
- Sort out data inventories across the whole company in different formats and platforms to develop scalable monitoring systems that detect Privacy Risks and establish automated alerts.
- Develop data pipelines to automate metrics reporting, drive metrics to improve Operational Excellence.
- Conduct data investigation, data mining to find root causes, patterns and trends for privacy risks, and develop improvement or remediation plans for data protection.
- Establish solid design and best engineering practice for data access controls and management.
- Collaborate with various XFN teams within the PDPO department and across organizations (e.g. legal, security, engineering and product) to drive various projects on privacy and data protection.
Qualification
Required
- Current pursuing an Undergraduate or Master in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, mathematics or related technical field
- Hands-on experience and deep understanding of various Big Data technologies (Hadoop, M/R, Hive, Spark, Metastore, Presto, Flume, Kafka, ClickHouse, Flink etc.)
- Proficient in SQL, Python, Schema design, ETL (Extraction, Transformation & Loading)
- Experience with data visualization tools or platforms (e.g. Dashboards, Tableau, etc.)
- Strong communication and project management skills. Be comfortable working with a large number of XFNs to lead and drive projects at different stages.
Preferred
- Experience and knowledge on data privacy & data security is a plus
- Passionate and self-motivated about big data and data privacy.
Benefits
- Day one access to health insurance
- Life insurance
- Wellbeing benefits
- 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid sick time (56 hours if hired in first half of year, 40 if hired in second half of year)
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.
Founded in 2003
Los Angeles, California, USA
10001+ employees
https://www.tiktok.com
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