Technical Director, Roblox

Content Understanding

$383.9-440.2k

This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

Online gaming and entertainment platform

Job no longer available

Online gaming and entertainment platform

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Job no longer available

$383.9-440.2k

This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation

Expert level

San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in San Mateo, CA

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmentCommunity

Company mission

To connect a billion people with optimism and civility.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

10+ year experience designing and building deep learning solutions to solve content understanding, visual understanding, or computer vision problems. Break down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. Experience in building scalable content understanding or computer vision models and launching them into production for millions or billions of users
Solid fundamentals in Deep Learning, Image/Video Understanding, or Text Understanding. MS or PhD degree in Computer Vision, Deep Learning, or a related field
A Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations
User oriented: While technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers
Versatile: You can work complex academic solutions into production solutions for different use cases
Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places

What the job involves

As a Technical Director for image or video understanding, you'll build deep learning models and algorithms to solve visual understanding problems across Roblox
The mission of the applied machine learning team is to build advanced machine learning solutions across Roblox
The team is working on advanced recommendation systems and image/video understanding models
With daily active users growing at a record rate, we are looking for experienced machine learning experts who are passionate about designing and building deep learning solutions to power Roblox's products
Design and implement deep learning based visual understanding solutions that address problems across Roblox
Author specs for new features and improvements
Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community and company first mindset
Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products
Work with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox
Work in our San Mateo office
Report to the engineering leader of Personalization

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

Top investors

25% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.8)

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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