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San Jose, CA
Internship
Onsite
$35/hr - $35/hr
Intern
TikTok is the leading destination for short-form mobile video, and they are seeking a Data Scientist Intern to leverage data science for safeguarding content and user privacy. The role involves analyzing data to support safety initiatives and collaborating with various teams to enhance platform security.
Apply NowResponsibilities
- Assist in designing and maintaining core indicator systems for platform content security and risks, including content violations, user feedback, account risks, etc.; Participate in building monitoring and anomaly attribution systems, learning to quickly identify and analyze security incidents
- Learn to apply statistical scientific methods, including A/B testing, causal inference, regression analysis, etc., to assist in evaluating the effectiveness of various security strategies; Participate in experimental result analysis to provide data support for business decisions
- Under guidance, conduct quantitative analysis for specific business challenges, using data mining techniques to identify potential optimization opportunities; Collaborate with product, operations, algorithm and other teams to transform analytical insights into actionable improvement plans
- Participate in data cleaning and preprocessing work to ensure data quality and provide reliable data foundation for risk analysis
- Assist in generating data visualization reports and monitoring dashboards to help teams intuitively understand risk situations and strategy effectiveness
- Learn and apply data analysis methodologies, participate in the accumulation of analytical frameworks and tools, enhancing both personal and team analytical capabilities
Qualification
Required
- Currently pursuing a Bachelor's, or Master's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Data Science etc relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- Familiar with common statistical analysis methods, proficient in SQL, Python/R, and other programming languages, with preference for those with data processing and analysis experience
- Excellent logical thinking, strong problem analysis and solving skills, good communication and collaboration abilities, passionate about challenges
- Enthusiastic about security risk analysis work and believing in the value of data-driven decisions
- Able to commit to working for 12 weeks in 2026
Preferred
- Good communication skills, team spirit, and proactive attitude
- Understanding of machine learning, causal inference, A/B testing methods and principles, with preference for those with internship experience in internet companies
- Ability to quickly learn new knowledge and skills, passionate about solving complex problems
- Detail-oriented, responsible, with high awareness of data security and privacy protection
Benefits
- 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.
TikTok is a short-form video entertainment app and social network platform. It is a sub-organization of ByteDance.
Founded in 2003
Los Angeles, California, USA
10001+ employees
https://www.tiktok.com
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