Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Roblox
Personalization
$283.8-331.6k
+ Equity
More information about location
Office located in San Mateo, CA
Online gaming & entertainment platform
Job no longer available
Online gaming & entertainment platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$283.8-331.6k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- 6+ years of experience designing and building scalable machine learning and search solutions that provide recommendations to millions or billions of users. Break down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages
- A BS or MS in Computer Science or a related discipline, Advanced degree are a definite plus
- Initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations
- Battle Ready: You have 7+ (for principal) or 4+ (for senior) years of experience designing and building scalable machine learning solutions to solve NLU use cases. Experienced with transformer based model training, inference, and product integration. Break down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages
- A Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations
- User oriented: While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers
- 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 Principal/Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll be building deep learning based user understanding, content understanding, and content generation models on the Personalization team
- The mission of the team is to connect a billion users with the best connections and content at the right time, covering an extremely diverse range of search and discovery problems at high scale
- This is fundamental to how we personalize the search experience to drive engagement and retention for Roblox users
- Our search and discovery systems suggest all experiences that the users see and play with across all surfaces
- In the future, our system also auto generates summaries, images, or videos from the experience content
- With daily active users growing at a record rate, we are looking for experienced machine learning engineers who are passionate about designing and building advanced ML solutions to power Roblox's Search and Discovery
- Design and implement the machine learning solutions that power the visual and text based search and discovery system to drive Roblox content distribution
- Design and implement LLMs for visual understanding and natural language understanding
- Design and implement generative models to generate text, images, or videos
- Author specs for new features and improvement
- Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community first mindset
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to accomplish the research efforts into the Roblox products
- Communicate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox
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
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
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Founders
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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