Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox
Creator Services NLP
$267.7-331.6k
+ Equity
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming and entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming and entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$267.7-331.6k
+ Equity
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 experience as a outstanding machine learning engineer (or related roles)
- 5+ years shipping machine learning products (leveling to senior software engineer or Principal Software Engineer will be based on experience)
- Experienced with transformer-based model design, training, serving and product integration
- Experienced at creating NLP / ML applications at scale
- Knowledgeable with speech models, deep learning based NPC action, planning and dialogue generation and reinforcement learning
- Proficient in Python, C# or similar programming languages
- Understanding of SQL and databases at scale
- Product-minded with an interest in understanding the end-user
What the job involves
- As a Senior / Principal Machine Learning Engineer with the Creator Services Natural Language Processing Team, you will build NLP, speech and generative AI models and products and bring the latest machine learning technology to our creators and help them create experiences at scale
- You will work on large language models, machine translation models, deep learning-based speech models and reinforcement learning to automatically enhance user interactions and user experience
- Report to the Engineering Manager of Creator Services
- Design and implement deep learning-based NLP solutions that address problems across Roblox
- Have the independence, opportunity and the end-to-end responsibility to develop NLP / ML-based services within the Roblox ecosystem
- Guide the future technical direction of the team and have impact on engineering
- Be a technical bar-raiser for cutting-edge ML technology, high code quality, architectural designs, and long-term approaches
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products
- Develop fellow engineers on the team
- Design systems and services that are scalable and resilient
- Collaborate with passionate Engineers, Product Managers and other Roblox team members
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.
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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