Senior ML Engineer, Communication Safety
San Mateo, CA, United States
Roblox
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!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.
About the Role:
As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will use the latest advances in deep learning, NLP to empower the immersive Spatial voice chat communication in experiences on Roblox
Our products include backend services working at high scale, data pipelines, ML models, and tools to ensure safe and civil experience (voice chat, 3D audio, and large-scale broadcast), to our 150M+ monthly users. Safety is Roblox's #1 priority and your mission is to expand voice chat to users around the globe to freely express themselves while keeping the community safe
If you enjoy working on the latest software while ensuring safety of the amazing products being built for the passionate community of Roblox, you'll be right at home within our Communication Safety team. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager on the Communication Safety team.
You Will:
- Build systems from ground-up, to detect and address complex degrees of Abuse possible with end-user communication systems supporting millions of users on Roblox. This may involve building backend services working at high scale, ML models, or tools to support our operation teams.
- Shape how the next generation of internet users interacts safely in the metaverse
- Define platform features to support product teams across the company in ensuring safety in every aspect of real-time communication at Roblox.
- Collaborate with product and design to push the boundary of what is possible.
- Use best programming practices, optimizing code to be performant
- Help recruit future talent for the team
You Have:
- A bachelor's degree in a related field with an emphasis on computer vision, NLP, graphics or machine learning
- 4+ years of experience researching, experimenting on model design and putting them into practice in Industry
- Experience building available and large-scale distributed fault tolerant services
- Publications in top-tier conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ICML, NIPS, SIGGRAPH) or equivalent contribution to industry or open-source projects.
You Are:
- Experienced: build ASR systems or NLP with Audio input
- Proficient in Python and at least one deep learning library (TensorFlow, PyTorch, MXNet)
- Familiarity with latest deep learning models including RNN-T, CTC, LSTM
- Solid: with software design skills and the ability to write efficient, readable and reusable code
- Responsible: you build systems that work and keep on working reliably. You are thorough in your designs, rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing.
- Curious: you are keen to learn, and stay up-to-date on technology developments.
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure the problems and the solutions.
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems and driving new tools/functionality for our end users and experience developers
- Team-oriented: You can work well as part of a team and know how to collaborate with all participants to develop the best solutions. Write clear design specs, mentor junior engineers, and guide projects from beginning to end
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- 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. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Tags: ASR Computer Vision Data pipelines Deep Learning Engineering ICML LSTM Machine Learning ML models Model design MXNet NLP Open Source Pipelines Python PyTorch RNN TensorFlow Testing
Perks/benefits: 401(k) matching Career development Conferences Equity Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Unlimited paid time off
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