Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Economy Fraud

Key Skills

Data Analysis, Data science techniques, Fraud Risk, Machine learning techniques, Operations, Product Management

Job Description

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 Economy Fraud?

The Economy Fraud team is responsible for multiple projects and products to support a robust economy inside of Roblox. The Economy Fraud team works on a wide range of machine learning problems across Economy including:

• Content Understanding and 3D similarity for Avatar Items
• Avatar Marketplace Search and Recommendations
• Ad and Billing Fraud Detection
• Ad Targeting and Prediction

You Will:

• Build, deploy, maintain and monitor high-scale ML solutions while working closely with product engineers and infra engineers.
• Implement models, improve infrastructure, build visualizations, perform data analysis, forecast fraud scenarios, and assist fraud investigations.
• Collaborate with generalist backend engineers, data scientists, product, and operations.
• Build and deliver complex technical projects from the planning stage through execution.
• Ensure that our systems are scalable, reliable, and extensible.

You Have:

• 4+ years of professional experience building and working on end-to-end ML systems, including data analysis, ML modeling and data pipelines.
• Domain experience in fraud, abuse, risk, security, or trust & safety is a plus, but not required.
• Passion for delivering products end-to-end, from ideation through implementation and A/B testing, while being empathetic with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong ownership with proactive, candid communication.
• Bachelor's Degree or above in computer science, engineering, mathematics, machine learning, (computational) physics, statistics, or some other quantitative field.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction.
• Versatile: You have a breadth and depth of expertise, and you are comfortable with several languages and technologies already; you are fungible in any situation. You can execute on goals, and take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems.
• Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and measure 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.
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger.

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