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Principal Engineer, Machine Learning Personalization
2 years ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
As a Principal Engineer, Personalization ML , you’ll be in charge of the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives across Personalization teams. The mission of these teams is to connect a billion users with the best connections and content at the right time, covering an extremely diverse range of recommendations and search problems at high scale. This is fundamental to how we personalize the experience to drive engagement and retention for Roblox users. With daily active users growing at a record rate, we are looking for experienced tech leaders who are passionate about designing and building machine learning solutions to power personalized Recommendations and Search.
You Are:
- Always Ready : You are a world class expert in machine learning with 10+ years of experience and a proven track record of delivering and improving large-scale recommendation and search systems. Experienced in designing and building scalable machine learning and search solutions that provide recommendations to millions or billions of users. Capable of breaking down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages.
- You have a BS in Computer Science or a related discipline, MS/PhD are a definite plus.
- A Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. You are empathetic, and find common understanding.
- User oriented: While deeply technical, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers.
- Versatile : You are an expert in several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation
- Creative : You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places.
- A Coach: You raise up others and create an engineering culture of excellence.
You Will:
- Lead the technical direction and implementation for the machine learning solutions that power the recommendation and search systems driving Roblox content distribution.
- Author specs for new features and improvement
- Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor
- Become an expert on our technology stack and make sure we always build new services the right way
- Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community and company first mindset.
- Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to realize the research efforts into the Roblox products
- Interface with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox.
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
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass