Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox
Fraud & Optimization
$238.5-289.5k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Be an early applicant
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$238.5-289.5k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help connect and bring together people from around the world through play.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience building and working on end-to-end ML systems, including data analysis, ML modeling and data pipelines
- Domain experience in fraud, abuse, risk, security, or trust & safety is a plus, but not required
- Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation and A/B testing, while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders
- Ownership mindset with proactive, candid communication
- Bachelor's Degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics, machine learning, or some other quantitative field
What the job involves
- As an Economy Fraud & Optimization engineer, you defend Roblox from all types of fraud, including purchasing and selling virtual items, and payment fraud
- Additionally, you will play a key role in optimizing the payments funnel, identifying friction points, and implementing strategies to improve conversion rates and personalize the user experience
- Our team’s challenges are not just regular day-to-day technical challenges
- Fraud and abuse approaches need to shift over time, depending on the current behaviors of fraudsters
- As an Economy ML engineer, you will be in a data-driven environment developing both classical and novel approaches to detect and prevent this bad behavior
- Build, deploy, maintain and monitor high-scale ML solutions while working closely with product engineers and infra engineers
- Implement models, improve infrastructure, build visualizations, perform data analysis, forecast fraud scenarios, and assist fraud investigations
- Optimize and personalize the payments funnel to reduce friction, improve conversion rates, and tune toward user preferences
- Collaborate with generalist backend engineers, data scientists, product, and operations
- Build and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution
- Ensure that our systems are scalable, reliable, and extensible
Our take
While online gaming is no longer a revolutionary concept, Roblox has established itself as a leader in the industry by creating a gaming toolbox that encourages quality game creation, which it pays developers for.
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 experiences on the platform are made by Roblox's over three million creators, and are available on a range of devices from PC to Xbox to Oculus, and more. The company has grown at an impressive rate, and has been keen to adopt new developments in the tech world, for example with its real-time AI translation for players to interact outside their native tongue.
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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 benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- 401k
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Baszucki
(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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