Principal Software Engineer (Machine Learning) - Content Safety

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 CONTENT SAFETY?

As a Principal Software Engineer (Machine Learning) on Content Safety, you'll build systems to ensure that user-generated content across Roblox is safe and civil, including experiences, images, and much more. You'll work on some of the most challenging problems we face, from inappropriate images to exploitative 3D models to misleading 3D experiences. Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority, and our mission is to protect our community. You will report to an engineering leader on our Content Safety Team.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Resourceful: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You identify opportunities and then apply your breadth of skills to make them happen. You are adaptable in any situation.
• Analytical: You're excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and see the opportunities hidden in the data. You can quantify the problems and the solutions.
• User Oriented: You always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers before architecting a solution. You focus relentlessly on the end goal.
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. You foster a culture of technical excellence.

You Will:

• Report to our Engineering Manager of Content Safety
• Build systems to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. You will work on building backend services working at high scale, ML models to detect unsafe content of all types, and tools to support our review operation teams.
• Define and build platform features to support product teams across the company in ensuring safety in every part of Roblox.
• Help define the team's roadmap and long-term strategy towards keeping content and features on Roblox safe.
• Shape how the next generation of internet users interacts safely in the metaverse

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 8+ years of experience building and shipping products to production.
• 5+ years of experience identifying and driving solutions to difficult problems that span multiple teams and require deep technical expertise.
• 5+ years of experience developing large-scale customer-facing user experiences.
• 5+ years experience shipping scaled ML models in production.

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$218,540—$283,780 USD

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

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