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Roblox

Data Scientist, Social - PhD Early Career

Roblox
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onsite full-time $185,860—$221,380 USD San Mateo

First indexed 11 May 2026

Description

We're on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and we're looking for talented individuals to help us achieve this goal. As a Data Scientist on our Social team, you will work closely with our Social Connections team to identify opportunities for growing user connections, facilitating co-experiences, and enhancing social content discovery.

You will leverage your technical expertise and analytical skills to design experiments, formulate product strategies, and conduct research to gain deeper insights into the Roblox social network, utilizing the latest AI capabilities. Additionally, you will contribute to communications, social sharing, and community features while collaborating with cross-functional verticals such as Discovery, Safety, and Creator.

Your responsibilities will include designing, executing, and analyzing A/B tests to measure the impact of new features and inform product decisions, architecting and building robust data pipelines to support analytics, reporting, and modeling needs, conducting deep-dive analyses to understand user behavior, identify opportunities for growth, and solve ambiguous business problems, and contributing to the team's science roadmap by identifying key areas for analysis and experimentation.

We're looking for individuals with a PhD or equivalent in Data Science, Biostatistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or a Master's degree with 3-5 years of experience. You should have expertise in SQL and experience using scripting languages for data analysis, proficiency in developing data pipelines and working with big data technologies, strong experience in experimental design, causal inference, and other statistical techniques, and a proven track record of translating complex data into actionable insights and communicating them to stakeholders.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7463634