Machine Learning Engineer Intern - Data Trust & Safety, Sydney (2026 Start)

Team Overview

Join TikTok's Trust & Safety team, dedicated to cultivating a secure global environment where users feel safe to explore, create, and engage across all platforms. The team integrates advanced human and automated moderation techniques to rapidly eliminate harmful content, often before it reaches users.

Internship Opportunity

This internship offers students valuable exposure to industry practices and hands-on experience, empowering you to translate your ambitions into impactful realities within a dynamic tech environment. Applicants may apply to up to two roles across TikTok and its affiliates worldwide, with applications reviewed on a rolling basis—early submission is encouraged.

Role Responsibilities

• Design and implement leading-edge content safety infrastructure for TikTok's platform.
• Create scalable classifiers, tools, models, and algorithms leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, computer vision, and data mining techniques.
• Align with product goals to enhance trust and safety strategies and boost model performance.
• Collaborate with various cross-disciplinary teams to maintain TikTok's global content safety.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Currently enrolled undergraduate or postgraduate student pursuing a degree in computer science or a similar technical field.
• Proven experience in areas such as machine learning, pattern recognition, natural language processing, data mining, or computer vision.
• Involvement in projects related to recommendation systems, search engines, advertising, or analogous domains.

Preferred:

• Authored publications in leading AI conferences or journals like KDD, IJCAI, WWW, WSDM, ICML, NeurIPS, CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, or ACL.
• Participation in competitions focused on machine learning, data mining, computer vision, or NLP.
• Strong grasp of data structures and algorithmic principles.
• Genuine enthusiasm for technical problem solving and innovative solutions.

Working Conditions and Wellbeing

This role involves interaction with potentially distressing content including imagery, videos, and text concerning bullying, hate speech, child safety, self-harm, violence, and animal harm. TikTok recognizes the psychological challenges of this work and commits to comprehensive wellness initiatives that support physical and mental health throughout employment.

About TikTok

TikTok stands as the premier destination for short-form mobile videos, inspiring creativity and bringing joy worldwide. Its global headquarters reside in Los Angeles and Singapore, complemented by offices in major cities such as New York, London, Dublin, Paris, Berlin, Dubai, Jakarta, Seoul, and Tokyo.

Our Culture

TikTok fosters a culture rooted in curiosity, humility, resilience, and collaboration, embracing challenges as opportunities to innovate and grow. Focused on inclusivity, the company celebrates diverse voices and aims to create an environment reflective of the global communities it serves.

Acknowledgment

Respect is extended to the Traditional Custodians of the land across Australia, honoring their enduring connection to country and community as part of TikTok’s commitment to reconciliation.