TikTok

Senior Data Scientist, Model Risk & Data Analytics, Internal Audit - AMS

TikTok$129K — $263K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics) required.
  • 5+ years in applied data science, machine learning, or AI research with LLMs.
  • Hands-on experience with ML model lifecycle and proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Expert in defining model performance metrics and bias quantification.
  • Knowledge of transformer-based LLM architectures and traditional ML algorithms.
  • Experience in corporate, regulatory or advisory contexts supporting AI/ML model audits.
  • High proficiency in Mandarin for communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Evaluate and assure auditing frameworks for models focusing on robustness and compliance.
  • Conduct audits on the model lifecycle, assessing quality and performance standards.
  • Identify vulnerabilities and biases in models, suggesting remediation strategies.
  • Define and assess performance metrics related to model outputs and evaluate hallucination rates.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to share technical findings and risk assessments effectively.
  • Support audit teams by providing data analytics and insights during engagements.
  • Develop data warehouses and implement quality checks for audit data assets.

Benefits

  • Access to medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one.
  • 401(k) plan with company match and profit-sharing.
  • Paid parental leave and short/long-term disability coverage.
  • Life insurance and wellness benefits included.
  • 10 paid holidays and 10 sick days per year.
  • 17 days of paid personal time annually, increasing with tenure.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities About The Team Internal Audit is a global function responsible for providing independent assurance and evaluating the company's risk management, governance and internal control processes to determine if they are designed and operating effectively. The Internal Audit team plans and executes audit projects according to our risk-based audit plan by evaluating financial, compliance, operational, and IT processes and controls. We work with business functions in addressing risks and improving the control environment through timely and comprehensive audit work and tracking of remediation actions until completion. We are looking for data scientists and AI developers who will power our mission by building data products that enable and empower continuous auditing and the identification and discovery of risks throughout various verticals. You will be deploying your engineering, data analytics and data science skills to be part of the mission to build state-of-the-art analytics products for the audit team. Responsibilities - Proficiency in frameworks for auditing models, including criteria like robustness, fairness, interpretability, alignment, and compliance. Familiarity with emerging LLM auditing methodologies such as LLMAuditor (probe generation/answering cycles, human-in-the-loop assessments). - Model Evaluation & Audit Frameworks: conduct audits on the model lifecycle from training through deployment and monitoring, ensuring compliance with quality, performance, fairness, and risk-management standards. - Risk Identification & Mitigation: Identify model vulnerabilities including bias, fairness violations, harmful hallucinations, security risks, and recommend remediation strategies. - Measurement Metrics & Statistical Validation: Define and assess model performance metrics (accuracy, precision/recall, F1, calibration, robustness, fairness metrics), measurement of hallucination rates in LLMs, bias/fairness quantification, confidence scoring, and stability analyses. - Communication & Collaboration: Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders, including data partners and owners across different business verticals. Clearly communicate technical findings, risk assessments, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Data Analytics Services: Partner with auditors to provide data support and guidance for audit engagements, including conducting interviews, observing systems and operations, developing queries and testing strategies, deploying data quality checks to ensure completeness and accuracy for data sets, and deriving insights. - Data Warehousing: develop and maintain data warehouses across different business verticals to efficiently support audit engagements; implement data quality checks for key data assets and continuously collaborate with data partners to maintain completeness and accuracy of these assets. - Automation and self-service analytics: partner with auditors to identify and analyze key risk indicators, contribute to a continuous auditing data strategy that will translate into various use cases and corresponding data solutions that can automate the evaluation of the design and effectiveness of controls; build and maintain ETL data pipelines, as well as dashboards to support the solutions. - AI-Driven Automation and Insights: Leverage machine learning and AI to automate business and audit processes, surface insights from unstructured and structured data, and extend the team's ability to deliver actionable recommendations at scale. Develop, train, and implement proprietary machine learning and AI models, to scale up audit testing insights. - Professional Development: Continue to develop and expand knowledge in data analytics practices, machine learning, AI, and company products through continuous education. Provide data training to empower the audit team to derive insights. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications - Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, or Economics. - 5+ years professional experience in applied data science, machine learning engineering, or AI research, specifically working with LLMs and traditional ML models and at least 5 years practical experience of data science or analytics from the technology sector, including but not limited to B2C SaaS, media tech, e-commerce, social media platforms, fintech etc. - Hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and monitoring large-scale ML models with thorough understanding of lifecycle risks and controls plus strong proficiency in SQL and Python (including libraries such as Hugging Face Transformers, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn), data analysis tools, and ML pipeline orchestration platforms. - Expertise in defining and assessing model performance metrics (accuracy, precision/recall, F1, calibration, robustness, fairness metrics), measurement of hallucination rates in LLMs, bias/fairness quantification, confidence scoring, and stability analyses. - Extensive knowledge of transformer-based LLM architectures (e.g., GPT, BERT, T5, PaLM) and classical ML algorithms (e.g., regression, tree-based methods, neural networks). - Working knowledge of classical ML algorithms and LLM architecture and deep technical expertise in LLMs and Traditional ML and a proven track record supporting or performing AI/ML model audits or evaluations within a corporate, regulatory, or advisory context. Preferred Qualifications - PhD degree in a quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, or Economics. - Proficiency in frameworks for auditing models, including criteria like robustness, fairness, interpretability, alignment, and compliance. Familiarity with emerging LLM auditing methodologies such as LLM Auditor (probe generation/answering cycles, human-in-the-loop assessments). - Ability to analyze model design, training methods, data pipelines, and inference behaviors. - Capability to identify model vulnerabilities including bias, fairness violations, harmful hallucinations, security risks, and to recommend remediation strategies. - Experience building and maintaining data analytics solutions for continuous audit programs, including automating common analyses and recurring checks plus the ability to clearly communicate technical findings, risk assessments, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Experience with data integration, ETL processes, and large-scale data processing systems plus working knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure such as AWS, GCP, Azure or Snowflake; working knowledge of large scale data processing techniques, such as Hadoop, Flink and MapReduce and a good understanding of data warehouse and data modeling principles. - Front end and back end software development skills. Job Information [For Pay Transparency]Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $129960 - $263340 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. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

About TikTok

TikTok is a social media app that allows users to create and share short videos. The app was launched in 2016 by Chinese tech company ByteDance. TikTok has become one of the most popular social media apps in the world, with over 1 billion active users. The app has been downloaded over 2 billion times worldwide. TikTok has faced controversy over its data privacy practices and its potential ties to the Chinese government. In 2020, the app faced a potential ban in the United States, but a deal was reached with Oracle and Walmart to create a new company called TikTok Global.
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