Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 263,670 - 322,820; Full time

Job summary

Roblox in San Mateo, CA, is seeking a Data Scientist to develop large-scale forecasting systems and machine learning solutions. In this role, you’ll work closely with product and data engineering teams to model user outcomes and enhance ecosystem health.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of relevant experience, strong statistical and machine learning skills, and an advanced degree in a quantitative field. This position includes a salary range of $263,670 to $322,820 and offers an engaging work environment with opportunities for equity compensation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry experience in developing machine learning solutions.
• Experience with scalable ETL data and ML pipelines.
• Strong communication skills to connect model outputs to strategy.

Responsibilities

• Develop and support large scale forecasting systems.
• Design and implement batch prediction infrastructure.
• Communicate strategic findings to influence company roadmaps.

Skills

Machine learning

Data engineering

Time series modeling

Statistical modeling

Communication skills

Education

Advanced degree in Statistics, Economics, or related field

Tools

ETL pipelines

Machine Learning frameworks

Job description

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences— all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

WHY DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS

The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen in making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers.

In Data Science & Analytics, you will contribute to horizontal ML systems and infrastructure that enable us to understand the trajectory of users and creators as well as the overall business to inform investment opportunities and accelerate our growth. These systems inform experiment decision making, product roadmaps, and execution risk on our road to connecting one billion users.

You Will:

• Develop, build, and support large scale forecasting systems for business growth
• Develop, build, and support modeling of long-term user outcomes
• Design and implement batch prediction infrastructure that ensures high levels of accuracy, provides explainability, and quantifies uncertainty
• Collaborate with data science and product partners to unlock causal understanding of our business growth and to develop scalable solution for measuring ecosystem health
• Model and promote a high bar for technical excellence in the broader data science and ML community.
• Communicate strategic findings to influence company and team-level roadmaps
• Partner with Data Engineering and Data Platform teams to ensure model development, reporting, and monitoring systems are built in a reliable and robust way.

You Have:

• 5+ years of industry experience in prototyping and building scalable machine learning solutions.
• Experience building scalable and robust ETL data and ML pipelines with complex upstream dependencies and accountability for downstream consumers.
• Experience with time series modeling in practice and theory. Experience with foundational time series models (i.e. transformer based) and fine tuning frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to lead project areas from scratch, and break product requirements into iterative deliverable stages.
• Strong communication skills to connect model outputs to company-level strategy and to integrate horizontal solutions into vertical team operations and systems.
• An advanced degree (MSc or PhD) or equivalent degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Annual Salary Range: $263,670 — $322,820 USD

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.