Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer - Safety
Job Summary
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
Drive the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives focused on maintaining the safety and civility of our users. 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
- 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
Qualifications
- Proven expertise in creating and launching machine learning models from scratch
- 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
Skills
- Experience with cutting-edge ML technologies, including LLMs
- Knowledgeable about NLP or computer vision (preferred)
- Familiarity with maintaining and evolving safety systems at scale (preferred)
Benefits
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.
Pay
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.
Annual Salary Range $399,420—$457,970 USD
Schedule
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.
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).