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Data Scientist Intern - Economics (Summer 2023)

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.

Our vision at Roblox 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. We build the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life, running the marketplace that enables these developers and creators to turn their creativity and invention into healthy businesses.

A career at Roblox means you'll be working to shape the future of human interaction, to expand a compelling virtual marketplace, to solve unique technical challenges at scale, and to help create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Why a Data Science Internship at Roblox?

In 2021 & 2020 we were honored to be one of the Top 100 Internship Programs in the US. In 2019, we were honored to be recognized as a Certified Great Place to Work®. We've fostered a company culture that empowers people to do the most defining work of their career in an environment that's made up of the most passionate, and team-oriented people you'll ever meet.

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, causal inference, economics, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt 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.

You Will:

• Help understand customer demand through development and estimation of demand models
• Contribute to development of rigorous frameworks to measure marketplace health
• Understand community incentives and recommend new mechanisms to advance marketplace health
• Help understand monetary dynamics and incentives on Roblox
• Accelerate product development through your understanding of the underlying data and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights that enhance 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

You Are:

• A PhD candidate (completing at least third year) in Economics, Statistics, Applied Math, Physics, or other technical field
• A specialist in an applied technical field relevant to marketplace design and optimization (e.g., empirical industrial organization, multi-sided platform economics, mechanism design, applied microeconomics, or causal machine learning) or policy evaluation (e.g., macroeconomics, monetary policy)
• Highly proficient in a scripting language (Python, R)
• Proficient in big data query / processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark or Airflow
• Passionate about applying scientific rigor to advance a dynamic consumer product
• Willing to work full-time and onsite

Location: San Mateo, CA

Duration: 12 Weeks (May or June start)

Please note that the listed salary is the hourly rate, and interns will not receive all benefits listed below with the exception of free food and onsite fitness center.

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

$60—$64 USD