Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Roblox
Economy ML
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$289.5-338.3k
+ Equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office (San Mateo, CA)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.
Role
Who you are
- Leadership Experience: 3+ years managing ML engineers or scientists; 5+ years building ML systems at scale in search, recommender systems, or ads
- Strong Technical Foundation: Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics, or a related field—or equivalent hands-on experience
- Depth in ML: Proven track record shipping deep learning models across ranking, retrieval, NLP, computer vision, or multimodal pipelines. Experience using transformer architectures and LLMs in production systems is a strong plus
- End-to-End Execution: You’ve built ML systems from data ingestion to serving in production
- Strategic Thinking: You’re comfortable balancing near-term impact with long-term innovation
- Team-first Mindset: A collaborative leader who thrives on mentoring and enabling others to succeed
What the job involves
- The Economy ML team is building the machine learning backbone that powers Roblox’s Marketplace, Developer Monetization, and Payments ecosystems. From intelligent pricing and personalized storefronts to dynamic layout optimization and avatar understanding, we’re reimagining how the Roblox economy drives user engagement, monetization, and creator success at scale
- We’re looking for a Machine Learning Engineering Manager to lead a team of exceptional ML engineers tackling core challenges across ranking, retrieval, and multimodal content understanding
- This includes everything from advancing deep learning models for search and recommendation, to developing systems that understand the textual and visual semantics of avatar content and drive long-term value for the Roblox economy
- Define and drive the technical roadmap for ML across Search, Recommendation, and Content Understanding
- Lead the development of scalable, production-ready ML systems—from raw data to model deployment
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and data science to build intelligent discovery experiences
- Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of ML engineers
- Establish engineering best practices to ensure system reliability, extensibility, and performance
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.
While the platform does face scrutiny over users safety (particularly given its young audience) the company's efforts to strengthen parental controls and open dialogue through initiatives like its new Parents Council signal a growing commitment to addressing these challenges. At the same time, its financial performance and creator-focused investments underscore a business in very strong health. With record payouts to developers, an expanding older player base, and a platform that increasingly rewards creative talent, Roblox's trajectory remains one of innovation and impressive growth.
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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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