Principal Data Scientist - Safety

Roblox
San Mateo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: phdSkills: ["Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving","Strategic thinking","Influencing"]

Lead data science initiatives to measure and mitigate harmful user-generated content on Roblox, using prevalence estimation, ground truth datasets, and causal inference. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Policy, Compliance, and Legal to design experiments and scalable safety solutions, while guiding resource investment and ensuring alignment with platform policies and safety goals.

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Roblox
Roblox
9 months ago

Principal Data Scientist - Safety

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Job Summary

Lead data science initiatives to measure and mitigate harmful user-generated content on Roblox, using prevalence estimation, ground truth datasets, and causal inference. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Policy, Compliance, and Legal to design experiments and scalable safety solutions, while guiding resource investment and ensuring alignment with platform policies and safety goals.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning

Key Responsibilities

  • •Establish and monitor robust prevalence measurement methodologies to quantify harmful content and behavior on the platform, providing the authoritative source of truth for safety goals.
  • •Develop and validate comprehensive ground truth datasets for harmful UGC and violative on-platform behaviors, ensuring high quality and alignment with the latest platform policies.
  • •Deepen understanding of violations by conducting exploratory analysis on current and emerging threat landscapes, providing data-backed recommendations on where to invest detection and moderation resources.
  • •Design, implement, and analyze experiments for new moderation and safety enforcement features, communicating results to Product and Engineering and coordinating with Policy, Compliance, and Legal teams.
  • •Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to measure effectiveness and systemic impacts of safety initiatives on player experience and platform integrity.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Equity

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of industry experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering
  • •7+ years of experience using scripting languages (Python, R), and big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, and Airflow
  • •Knowledge of ML and Deep Learning either via formal training or industry experience
  • •Ability to apply creative first-principles reasoning to solve ambiguous problems
  • •Experience developing large-scale safety or moderation systems as well as experience with content platforms, specifically user-generated content
Experience:10+ yearsSafetyContent moderationData scienceGaming
Education:PhD / Doctorate
Skills:CommunicationCollaborationProblem-solvingStrategic thinkingInfluencing
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonRSQLHiveSparkAirflow

Company Brief

Roblox
Operates an online platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, enabling creators to build, publish, and monetize interactive 3D experiences for a global community of players.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2004
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