Senior Data Scientist - Core Engine
San Mateo, CA
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.
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 groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact on our community of players and developers.
WHY CORE ENGINE?
The Core Engine team is missioned to build world-class elastic game engine technology that powers engaging experiences. We build the primary technology that powers our 3D worlds including rendering, simulation, networking and systems. As a Data Scientist, you'll partner with engineers, data scientists, technical program managers, and leaders across the company in our efforts to improve the quality and performance of our game engine and the user generated content that runs on top of it. Your work will touch every part of the engine, from threading and memory management to physics and scripting. You will define KPI's and measure the impact of important features and improvements, while discovering areas of opportunity through dashboards, analysis and A/B experiments.
You Are:
- Passionate about data. You use novel techniques and tools to extract value from data. You have a degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or other relevant field.
- A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and lead spirited discussions about the findings. You can explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
- A capable statistician. You understand the value of characterizing data by its distribution. Covariance, Bias, and Conditional Probability are concepts that you rely on every day.
- An expert transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You're experienced in automating efforts and crunching massive volumes of data.
You Will:
- Reporting to the Sr.Manager, you will define success metrics and manage new instrumentation and tools to make it happen.
- Understand how networking, rendering, simulation and more help build a fast, scalable and engaging experience through the game engine across many devices.
- Accelerate product development through your understanding of the underlying data and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights that improve growth.
- 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.
- Build dashboards to understand root causes of changes in metrics.
- Evaluate A/B experiments to determine success of product feature launches.
- Influence how Roblox provides a better experience for the community of players and developers.
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of industry experience or 4+ years of relevant academic and industry experience
- 1+ years partnering with engineering teams/systems or engineering background
- 2+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate very large datasets
- 2+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Operations or other technical field
Preferred Qualifications:
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Operations Research or other technical field
- Experienced in data engineering, such as data ETL and telemetry logging.
- 2+ years of industry experience in analytics focused on enhancing engineering platforms or operations
- Prior experience leading an area independently as an individual contributor
- Experienced in presenting analytics results and data storytelling to influence engineering teams and leaders
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: A/B testing Big Data Causal inference Computer Science Economics Engineering ETL Machine Learning Mathematics Open Source PhD Physics Python R Research Spark SQL Statistical modeling Statistics
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Unlimited paid time off
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