Senior Data Scientist - Discovery
RobloxUser-Generated Content company
San Mateo, United States$307,430 - $373,680 USDSenior
Altimeter Capital
Dragoneer Investment Group
Andreessen Horowitz
Tencent
First Round Capital
Warner Music Group
Data & AINew
About the role
TL;DR
Lead ML solutions and ranking frameworks for Roblox's discovery canvases, influencing product roadmap and user experience.
- •Roblox is building the tools and platform that empower its community to bring any experience they can imagine to life.
- •The Data Science & Analytics organization aims to increase the speed, frequency, and acumen of decision-making at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to product building.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead the development of ML solutions and ranking frameworks for discovery canvases, focusing on long-term ecosystem health and user retention.
- •Act as the primary scientific advisor to Product and Engineering leaders, using data to drive innovations.
- •Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to measure platform initiative effectiveness.
- •Develop frameworks to scale the hypothesis generation process and ensure experimentation velocity matches growth.
- •Apply creative, first-principles reasoning to ambiguous problems, such as balancing experience visibility.
- •Requirements Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a quantitative field. 10+ years of experience (or 6+ with a PhD) in Data Science, Economics, or ML Engineering, specifically within large-scale recommendation systems or UGC content platforms.
- •Expert in the modern data stack (Python, R, SQL, Hive, Spark, Airflow) and deep theoretical/practical understanding of Deep Learning.
- •Ability to design sophisticated experiments accounting for two-sided marketplace and social network effects.
- •Ability to distill high-dimensional problems into actionable narratives for non-technical executive audiences.
Required skills
PythonSQLSparkAirflowTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnKeras
Domain expertise
gaming
Benefits & perks
Equity compensation, Benefits
Tech stack
PythonRSQLSparkAirflowTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnKeras