Data Scientist / Senior Data Scientist - Engine Audio/Video/Communications

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.

WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?

The Data Science & Analytics organization’s mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers.

WHY ENGINE?

The Engine team is missioned to build world-class elastic game engine technology that powers engaging experiences. We build the core technology that powers our 3D worlds including audio/video/voice chat, rendering, simulation, networking and systems. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll partner with engineers, product managers, technical program managers, and leaders across the company in our efforts to continually improve the quality and performance of our game engine and the user generated content that runs on top of it. Your work will touch various parts of the engine, from voice chat, audio API, UGC video to various performance optimizations. You will define KPI’s and measure the impact of key features and improvements, while discovering areas of opportunity through dashboards, analysis and A/B experiments.

You Will:

• Establish success metrics for multimedia products in engine. For example, what voice chat quality metrics matter to the end users? How are Engine performance impacting user engagement and monetization?
• Operationalize and scale metrics monitoring. Build dashboards that enable quick slice and dice as well as root cause analysis. Work with engineers to detect and investigate abnormal trends. Identify opportunities to improve.
• Understand how audio, video, voice chat and more contribute to building a fast, scalable and engaging experience through the game engine. Optimize user experience from the Engine perspective by improving the performance and quality of these factors.
• Navigate ambiguity and collaborate with stakeholders across various organizations including Engine, Growth, and Creator teams.
• Access raw data, and then transform it, analyze it, and render it in a compelling way - all using a custom analytics tool kit built from state-of-the-art open-source libraries.
• Use A/B experiments and causal inference to determine success of product feature launches. Understand the heterogeneous effects introduced from a diverse set of platforms and devices and UGC content.
• Influence how Roblox provides a better experience for the community of players and developers.

You Have:

• Advanced and/or equivalent degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Economics, Engineering or other related quantitative fields
• 4+ years of relevant industry or relevant experience, preferably with background in game engine, audio/video/voice chat, infra, system performance, etc.
• Strong data engineering experience. e.g. telemetry logging, data pipeline building, dashboard design
• Demonstrated ability to drive an area as an individual contributor and thought leader
• Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems
• Ability to communicate analytics results and data storytelling to influence engineering teams and leaders

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. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Annual Salary Range$239,080—$310,270 USD

Roles that are based in our San Mateo, CA Headquarters are in-office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional in-office on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).

You’ll Love:

• Industry-leading compensation package
• Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
• A rewarding 401k program
• Flexible vacation policy (varies by exemption status)
• Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
• Roblox Admin badge for your avatar

• At Roblox HQ:

  • 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

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 for all candidates during the interview process.