Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Roblox
$295.3-345k
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
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Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$295.3-345k
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 experience building large-scale machine learning systems in production environments
- Proven track record of designing, developing, and launching ML models from scratch into production
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with vision language models or other foundation model technologies
- Expertise in solving complex ML modeling, data, and infrastructure challenges – with a focus on maintaining high quality and velocity at scale
- Ability to thrive in ambiguity: you excel at bringing clarity and direction to undefined or open-ended problem spaces
- Demonstrated success collaborating across functions (e.g. Product, Design, Data, Research), working together to drive meaningful business and user impact
- Strong product sense: able to establish clear success metrics and craft strategic roadmaps to achieve those goals
- High emotional intelligence: adept at resolving conflicts, mentoring engineers, and nurturing the growth of your team members
- Experience with modern microservice architectures and distributed systems programming paradigms (e.g. cloud services, scalable data pipelines)
- Hands-on to dive into code/architecture and guide technical discussions when needed, in addition to high-level planning
- Creative and strategic problem-solver: able to distill complex issues into simple, innovative solutions that drive impact
- An owner: you take responsibility for projects and outcomes end-to-end, and instill the same accountability in your team
- A lifelong learner: constantly seeking new knowledge and techniques to grow your expertise and expand your impact
- Independent and self-directed: capable of charting a course with minimal guidance, and comfortable making decisions in uncertain situations
- Highly collaborative: effective at working with cross-functional partners and teams, and skilled at building consensus
- Committed to diversity & inclusion: dedicated to fostering a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to contribute
- Passionate about cutting-edge ML tech: knowledgeable about the latest advances in AI/ML and excited to apply these technologies to keep users safe
What the job involves
- As Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems at Roblox, you'll lead technical efforts and manage a team of experienced engineers to develop innovative AI solutions for multimodal content safety
- You’ll oversee machine learning systems, constructing multimodal model architectures, improving data quality, training pipelines, and model performance to address challenges like real-time multi-verse content understanding and advanced moderation with large vision language models, spanning avatars, images, videos, audios, text, code / data models, and their composites
- In close collaboration with product, policy, and Trust & Safety teams, you'll design large-scale systems to detect and mitigate abusive behavior before it harms the community
- You'll own critical services at massive scale, balancing user freedom with platform civility to protect and empower our users
- Your leadership will help ensure Roblox remains a safe, inclusive space for self-expression and shared experiences
- Own the vision, technical direction, and execution of machine learning solutions for the Multimodal Safety AI system, ensuring these systems effectively detect and prevent harmful content at scale
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of ML engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, accountability, and inclusivity, while mentoring and developing talent
- Break down ambitious long-term goals into an actionable, iterative roadmap – delivering continuous improvements in stages and driving tangible value at each step
- Architect and guide the development of large-scale machine learning models with innovative architectures, ensuring they achieve high quality and are production-ready
- Drive alignment on complex technical decisions across multiple teams (within and beyond the Safety org), demonstrating empathy and building consensus among diverse stakeholders
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data Science, Policy, Design, and Operations partners to define and prioritize the machine learning roadmap for multimodal safety initiatives, ensuring alignment with broader Safety and Roblox objectives
- Stay ahead of emerging trends in AI/ML and content moderation techniques, continuously innovating our safety approaches to anticipate new challenges
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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