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.
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.
You Will:
- Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to research and develop advanced data analytics, causal inference, experiment design and machine learning solutions to power the business and product innovations.
- Conduct in-depth research to address complex data-related challenges.
- Work on projects that have a real impact on our products, services, and business strategy.
- Apply your work to expedite product innovations, including in-experience experiments, friend recommendations, and dynamic resource allocation for experience servers.
- Present your findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
You Have:
- Possessing or pursuing a PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, Economics, or Computational Social Science.
- At least 1 year of experience doing causal inference or machine learning or experiment design via research or prior internship.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., SQL, Python or R).
- Proficiency in big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, or Airflow.
- Passion for applying scientific rigor to advance dynamic consumer products.
- Experience in developing production solutions is a plus.
- Experience with ML modeling is a plus.
The starting base pay for this position is $66,$66 USD per hour.