Senior Machine Learning Scientist, Roblox
$263.7-322.8k
+ All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Open for applications
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$263.7-322.8k
+ All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience in prototyping and building scalable machine learning solutions
- Experience building scalable and robust ETL data and ML pipelines with complex upstream dependencies and accountability for downstream consumers
- Experience with time series modeling in practice and theory. Experience with foundational time series models (i.e. transformer based) and fine tuning frameworks
- Demonstrated ability to lead project areas from scratch, and break product requirements into iterative deliverable stages
- Strong communication skills to connect model outputs to company-level strategy and to integrate horizontal solutions into vertical team operations and systems
- An Advanced Degree (MSc or PhD) or equivalent degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields
What the job involves
- The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen in making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products
- We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning
- Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers
- In Data Science & Analytics, you will contribute to horizontal ML systems and infrastructure that enable us to understand the trajectory of users and creators as well as the overall business to inform investment opportunities and accelerate our growth
- These systems inform experiment decision making, product roadmaps, and execution risk on our road to connecting one billion users
- Develop, build, and support large scale forecasting systems for business growth
- Develop, build, and support modeling of long-term user outcomes
- Design and implement batch prediction infrastructure that ensures high-levels of accuracy, provides explainability, and quantifies uncertainty
- Collaborate with data science and product partners to unlock causal understanding of our business growth and to develop scalable solution for measuring ecosystem health
- Model and promote a high bar for technical excellence in the broader data science and ML community
- Communicate strategic findings to influence company and team-level roadmaps
- Partner with Data Engineering and Data Platform teams to ensure model development, reporting, and monitoring systems are built in a reliable and robust way
Our take
Online gaming may be a well-established space, but Roblox has distinguished itself as a leader by empowering its community to build, share, and profit from their own creations - turning game development into an accessible, rewarding ecosystem for millions of users.
In addition to standard games, the platform offers virtual worlds and other experiences to explore and interact with. Its platform provides an online ecosystem for millions to create, socialize, chat, and explore immersive experiences with friends. In fact, in the US its used by two-thirds of children aged 9 to 12.
The platform has faced scrutiny over user safety, but responded by strengthen parental controls and launching initiatives like its "Parents Council". This move to address these issues, atop its strong financial performance and record payouts to developers, showcase Roblox's trajectory as one of innovation and impressive growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$520m
SERIES H
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES G
Total funding: $922.8m
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(Founder & CEO)Studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford before founding Knowledge Revolution in 1990, where they spent 9 years as CEO. They worked as VP of MSC.Software for 2 years, and started Roblox in 2005.
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