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. The breadth of opportunities, and the evolving demands of this first-of-its-kind platform, ensure that your avenues for growth are always expanding and flexible.

Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.

WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?

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, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers.

WHY DEVELOPER SERVICES?

The Developer Services team is missioned to provide unbounded infrastructure and services that empower developers to create and operate engaging experiences. As the first Data Scientist, you will be a key participant in helping our product and engineering teams shape the future vision of Roblox. You’ll partner with data scientists, product managers, engineers and leaders across the company to better understand our players and builders, performing ad hoc analysis, creating dashboards, defining KPIs, applying models and designing A/B experiments.

You Are:

Passionate about data. You have the curiosity and self-drive to continuously learn new techniques and tools to extract value from data. You have a degree in Statistics, Economics, Computer Science or other relevant field.
A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and engage in spirited discussions about the findings. You have the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs.
A capable statistician. You understand the value of characterizing data by its distribution. Covariance, Bias, and Conditional Probability are concepts that you rely on every day.
An expert transforming data with SQL and a scripting language such as Python or R. You’re experienced in automating efforts and crunching massive volumes of data using big data frameworks such as Spark, Hadoop or Flink.
Experienced in developing models to draw insights from data. You use regression techniques, data mining, and statistical techniques to create new, scalable solutions to solve difficult business problems. You understand when to apply the appropriate methodology to maximize impact in a pragmatic fashion.

You Will:

Understand how existing services are used by successful developers at scale to build deeper engaging and immersive experiences.
Explore and shape a vision for new services to offer developers leading to further success and better content.
Accelerate product development through your understanding of the underlying data and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights that drive growth.
Access raw data, and then transform it, analyze it, and render it in a compelling way--all using a custom analytics tool kit built from state-of-the-art open-source libraries.
Build dashboards to understand root causes to changes in metrics.
Establish creative experiments to evaluate success of product feature launches.
Influence how Roblox interacts with its players and its platform developers.

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of industry experience in analytics
2+ years of experience in statistical modeling and machine learning
3+ years of experience using big data query/processing languages such as SQL, Hive or Spark to transform/manipulate very large datasets
3+ years of experience in one or more scripting languages such as Python or R
BA/BS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field

Preferred Qualifications:

MS or PhD in Computer Science, Applied Math, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or other technical field
2+ years of industry experience in analytics focused on enhancing products and discovering opportunities
2+ years of experience in fast-paced environment or fast growing company, such as the tech sector
Experience working with platforms offering infrastructure-as-a-service
Ability to communicate analytics results and data storytelling to influence product teams and leaders
Creative thinker able to apply first-principles reasoning to solve complex problems
Experience doing research, building cutting edge technology, or working on complex technical projects.

You'll Love:

Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
A rewarding 401k program
Flexible vacation policy
Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
Annual CalTrain Go Pass
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