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Sr. Machine Learning Engineer - Apple News

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$128K - $177K/yr

Description As a Machine Learning Engineer on the Apple News team, you will build and operate the infrastructure that powers ML-driven product features spanning content tagging, ranking, clustering ...

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How much do content tagging jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 7, 2026, the average hourly pay for content tagging in California is $30.87, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $21.83 and $35.10 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is content tagging?

A Content Tagging job involves labeling or categorizing digital content—such as articles, images, videos, or products—using relevant keywords or metadata. This helps improve searchability, organization, and user experience on platforms like websites, media libraries, and e-commerce stores. Taggers analyze content based on predefined guidelines and apply appropriate tags to ensure accurate classification. It is commonly used in industries like publishing, marketing, retail, and media streaming. Effective tagging enhances content discovery and ensures users can find relevant information quickly.

What skills and qualifications are needed for content tagging?

To thrive in Content Tagging, attention to detail, strong analytical skills, and a basic understanding of metadata and categorization are essential, often supported by a high school diploma or relevant experience. Familiarity with content management systems (CMS), tagging platforms, and sometimes AI-based annotation tools is typically required. Excellent communication, time management, and the ability to work independently or as part of a remote team are crucial soft skills. These qualifications ensure content is accurately labeled for enhanced searchability, user experience, and downstream workflow efficiency.

What are typical challenges faced by content tagging professionals and how can they be addressed?

Content Tagging professionals often encounter challenges such as maintaining consistency across large volumes of diverse content, adhering to evolving tagging guidelines, and managing repetitive tasks without loss of focus or quality. Addressing these challenges usually involves ongoing training, regular communication with quality assurance teams, and utilizing software tools that help automate and streamline tagging processes. Staying up-to-date with industry standards and seeking feedback for continuous improvement can also help maintain accuracy and efficiency. Collaborating closely with content creators and metadata specialists can further clarify requirements and resolve ambiguities in tagging criteria.

What are the most commonly searched types of Content Tagging jobs in California? The most popular types of Content Tagging jobs in California are:
Infographic showing various Content Tagging job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 100% Full Time. Highlights an 92% In-person, and 8% Hybrid job distribution, with an average salary of $64,201 per year, or $30.9 per hour.

Manager, Standards & Brand Safety - Content

Tubi

Los Angeles, CA • On-site, Remote

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 5 days ago


Job description

About the Role:
As Manager, Standards & Brand Safety - Content, you will administer Tubi's content standards, parental ratings, and compliance requirements across original programming, acquired content, and children's programming. You will help ensure content is appropriately reviewed, classified, tagged, and aligned with Tubi's content policies and applicable regulatory and industry requirements.
As part of the Standards & Brand Safety team, you will partner with Content Acquisitions, Content Operations, Production, Product, Data Science, and Legal to implement clear and consistent content standards and ratings policies. You will support scalable operational workflows, technical solutions, and data-driven monitoring for content review, classification, automation, and compliance.
The ideal candidate has strong content standards experience, practical knowledge of children's content and COPPA compliance, and a thorough understanding of content classification, parental rating systems, and regulatory requirements. They should be comfortable using reporting, AI-assisted review tools, and database environments to identify risk, investigate issues, improve operational processes, and support the evolution of Tubi's content standards.
This is a hybrid role based out of our Los Angeles office.
What You'll Do:
  • Implement and administer Tubi's content standards and brand safety policies across original programming, acquired content, children's programming, and other content experiences.
  • Review original and acquired content for compliance with Tubi's content policies, parental rating standards, applicable laws and regulations, industry guidelines, and platform requirements, and provide recommendations regarding ratings, advisories, mitigations, or acquisition concerns as appropriate.
  • Partner with Content Acquisitions, Content Operations, Production, Product, Data Science, and Legal to address content standards and compliance issues throughout the content lifecycle.
  • Serve as a subject matter resource on content standards, parental ratings, children's content, and brand safety, providing guidance within established policies and escalation frameworks.
  • Lead the day-to-day administration of Tubi's children's content program, including content review, child-directed content determinations, COPPA and CARU compliance, internal content tagging, and the operational implementation of children's content policies.
  • Assign and review parental ratings and content advisories for original programming, ensuring consistent application of established rating methodologies and content standards.
  • Leverage reporting dashboards, database environments, AI-assisted review tools, and internal systems to identify trends, improve review quality, monitor policy implementation, and support scalable content review and classification workflows.
  • Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Content Operations to improve content standards tooling, automation, metadata, taxonomy, and operational workflows that enable consistent policy enforcement at scale.
  • Document and communicate policy decisions, provide implementation guidance to cross-functional stakeholders, and escalate emerging policy questions or content risks requiring additional legal, regulatory, operational, or product review.
  • Identify operational challenges and policy implementation gaps and recommend improvements to content review, parental ratings, children's content operations, automation, and supporting guidance.
  • Monitor developments in streaming, AI, content moderation, parental ratings, children's media regulation, and industry best practices, including competitive analyses of how leading streaming platforms manage content standards and child safety.

Your Background:
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of experience in content standards, Standards & Practices, Trust & Safety, content policy, or content compliance at a streaming, entertainment, media, or technology company.
  • 2+ years of experience reviewing and classifying children's content, with demonstrated expertise in child-directed content determinations.
  • Strong understanding of content standards, parental ratings, content advisories, and regulatory considerations across original and acquired programming.
  • Deep knowledge of children's media regulations and industry guidelines, including COPPA, CARU, FTC guidance, and child-directed content requirements.
  • Experience applying domestic content rating systems and content classification frameworks; familiarity with international content rating systems and classification standards is a plus.
  • Experience reviewing a broad range of scripted, unscripted, documentary, reality, animation, children's, and other video programming for compliance with platform policies and applicable standards.
  • Experience using reporting, business intelligence, database, or workflow tools to investigate issues, identify trends, and improve operations with a willingness to learn Databricks, SQL, dashboards, or similar platforms.
  • Practical understanding of AI-assisted content review, moderation, classification, taxonomy, or workflow automation tools and their quality assurance considerations.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain policy, legal, operational, and technical issues to cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Excellent analytical skills, sound judgment, and strong attention to detail.
  • Self-starter capable of managing work independently while appropriately escalating legal, reputational, operational, or policy risks.

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Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is listed annually below. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, long-term incentive plan, and various benefits including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents.
High cost labor markets such as but not limited to Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco
$115,800-$155,000 USD
Tubi is a division of Fox Corporation, and the FOX Employee Benefits summarized here, covers the majority of all US employee benefits. The following distinctions below outline the differences between the Tubi and FOX benefits:
  • For US-based non-exempt Tubi employees, the FOX Employee Benefits summary accurately captures the Vacation and Sick Time.
  • For all salaried/exempt employees, in lieu of the FOX Vacation policy, Tubi offers a Flexible Time off Policy to manage all personal matters.
  • For all full-time, regular employees, in lieu of FOX Paid Parental Leave, Tubi offers a generous Parental Leave Program, which allows parents twelve (12) weeks of paid bonding leave within the first year of birth, adoption, surrogacy, or foster placement of a child in addition to applicable government leave program(s) and FOX's short-term disability policy. This time is 100% paid through a combination of any applicable state, city, and federal leaves and wage-replacement programs in addition to contributions made by Tubi.
  • For all full-time, regular employees, Tubi offers a monthly wellness reimbursement.
About Tubi:
Boldly built for every fandom, Tubi is a free streaming service that entertains over 100 million monthly active users. Tubi offers the world's largest collection of Hollywood movies and TV shows, thousands of creator-led stories and hundreds of Tubi Originals made for the most passionate fans. Headquartered in San Francisco and founded in 2014, Tubi is part of Tubi Media Group, a division of Fox Corporation.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.