Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Critical Harms

Why Safety?

Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority, and our mission is to protect our community. We systematically and proactively detect, remove, and prevent problematic content and behavior, and we make Roblox accounts secure and free from compromise. We also keep the platform compliant for changing regulations and growth markets.

Our team covers a broad area of the tech spectrum, including machine learning, experimentation, automation, highly scalable distributed backend systems, detection workflows, and AI-powered text filters. Aligned and partnering with product teams, we use this tool belt to discover new opportunities, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build safety products, and measure the impact on our community of users and developers.

Why Critical Harms

As an Engineering Manager on Critical Harms, you’ll lead an engineering team to identify and address some of the highest-risk and most critical problems we face, including rare events with sparse data such as predatory behavior, child endangerment, extremism, fraud.

You will shape and grow a high-performing engineering team. Support engineers, ranging from junior to principal, in their development. Foster a team culture of collaboration, innovation, and engineering excellence; while getting things done. Take responsibility for high-scale systems to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. Operate creatively and strategically in a highly adversarial space. Own the team’s mission and outcomes. Work with stakeholders to define the team’s roadmap, and ensure execution. Partner with Moderation Operations, PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox, to develop innovative solutions that ensure the safety of user-generated content.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience as an engineering manager working in ML space
• Excellence in collaborating with others, and in developing software engineers
• Demonstrated outcomes of facilitating team success
• Promised track record of technical delivery in high-scale environments with complex constraints
• Experience solving difficult problems involving both engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

What You Bring

• Resourceful: Able to navigate tough constraints to find the best solution. Laser-focused on the end goal and adaptable, creative, and strategic to achieve it.
• Solution Oriented: Start with the problem to be solved, and stay laser-focused on getting it solved. Tackle anything that comes your way, whether it’s a technical problem, a business problem, or a people problem.
• Team Oriented: Constantly look at how to make the team stronger – both the team you directly manage, and the team of peers you collaborate with.
• Empathetic: Put yourself in the shoes of anyone – a junior engineer, an executive, an adversarial attacker, a new user – and understand their needs.

Location

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.

Benefits

• All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.