Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer - Safety
RobloxAbout Roblox
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.
About the Role
As a Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer/Technical Director in the Safety organization at Roblox, you will drive the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives focused on maintaining the safety and civility of our users. Our industry-leading safety features ensure Roblox remains a safe and inclusive environment for our community to express themselves creatively and share experiences without fear. You will provide technical leadership on AI/ML efforts for Trust and Safety as the Roblox platform scales to serve different age groups and geographic locations.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction and implementation of machine learning solutions for safety-related systems
- Lead and mentor other engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and inclusivity
- Break down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages, ensuring continuous improvement
- Craft and build large-scale machine learning models with billions of parameters, ensuring production-readiness
- Facilitate challenging technical decisions across multiple teams, demonstrating empathy and finding common understanding
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and prioritize the machine learning roadmap
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience delivering and improving large-scale machine learning systems
- Proven expertise in creating and launching machine learning models from scratch
- Ability to handle data problems, train models with large datasets, and ensure system reliability at scale
- Experience with distributed systems, data architecture, and model extraction
- Strong programming skills and willingness to be hands-on as necessary
- Prior experience in a leadership role with a technical focus, including mentoring engineering teams
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with NLP or computer vision
- Familiarity with maintaining and evolving safety systems at scale
- Knowledge of cutting-edge ML technologies, including LLMs
About You
- A creative and strategic problem-solver, able to simplify complex issues while integrating fresh ideas
- Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported
- Passionate about maintaining deep technical expertise while meeting end-user needs
Compensation and Benefits
Annual Salary Range (San Mateo, CA headquarters)
$399,420—$457,970 USD
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.
Work Schedule
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Equal Opportunity
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, 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.
About Roblox
Roblox Corporation is an American video game developer that builds and operates Roblox, an online platform where a global community of developers and creators makes 3D immersive digital experiences that millions of people use to explore, create, play, learn, and connect. It offers Roblox Studio, a free toolset for building and publishing experiences; the Roblox client application for users; and Roblox Cloud, the underlying services and infrastructure.
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