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 in 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 partnered with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and craft the product roadmap, and prioritize, build data products, and measure impact on our community of players and developers.
WHY ECOSYSTEM AND LEARNING PLATFORM?We empower our data science organization and drive data-informed decision-making at scale. We do so by collaborating within data science and with cross-functional partners to tackle sophisticated business problems that span multiple areas of the Roblox ecosystem, by developing scalable solutions and tools, and by applying advanced data science methodologies. We are responsible for an experimentation and insights platform that provides comprehensive solutions for company-wide experimentation needs, integrates diverse data sources, and offers scalable, accessible data science products that yield actionable insights for product areas across Roblox.
As a member of this team, you will be crucial in ensuring the successful execution of hundreds of experiments on the platform. This is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with product data science partners to bring structure and build innovative solutions. In the process, you will help build ground breaking methodologies and tools that advance data science within our company and set industry standards. If you are a self-starter who is curious and passionate about using big data to build tangible business value and thrive in a dynamic, collaborative, and innovative environment, this is the place for you!
You Will:
- Provide expert support and guidance for vertical data science teams in experiment design, analysis, and troubleshooting.
- Proactively find opportunities and implement solutions to streamline analytic operations in experimentation.
- Develop innovative and scalable solutions to measure ecosystem health, forecast business performance, and identify and quantify sophisticated cause-effect relationships within Roblox ecosystem.
- Design, build and maintain robust, production-ready data science systems and tools in collaboration with engineering partners.
- Help scale experimentation, causal inference, and analytics insights through tooling and methodology.
- Nurture positive relationships with the data science, engineering and product teams.
You Have:
- A MSc, PhD, or equivalent experience in Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, or other quantitative fields.
- 4+ years developing, applying and productionizing statistical methods and machine learning techniques in scalable systems.
- 4+ years of experience in data science or related fields.
- Strong ability using SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate large datasets.
- Extensive experience in one or more scripting languages, such as Python or R.
- Proven track record to lead or build project areas from scratch.
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 as described on
this page.
Annual Salary Range
$243,860-$316,480 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
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 to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.