Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Voice Safety at Roblox

San Mateo, California, United States -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

02 Jan, 26

Salary

338270.0

Posted On

04 Oct, 25

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Machine Learning, Speech Recognition, Natural Language Processing, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Data-Driven Decision Making, Mentoring, Technical Direction, Problem Solving, User Orientation, Team Collaboration, Adaptability, Analytical Thinking, Strategic Thinking, Execution, Roadmap Development

Industry

Software Development

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 Voice Safety? Safety and Civility is Roblox's #1 priority and our mission is to protect our community. As a Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer on the Voice Safety team, you’ll build systems that monitor real-time user interactions — including voice chat, in-experience communications, developer APIs, video, and more. We build world-class speech recognition and NLP models to keep conversations safe. Roblox’s voice safety systems currently process hundreds of thousands of hours of active voice data each day, flagging users for profanity, hate speech, personal information (PII), and other abuses within seconds to help ensure the platform remains safe and civil at all times. You will: Build end-to-end ML systems to detect and address problematic voice communication and content on Roblox. Drive the evolution of our speech moderation into a scalable, adaptable system that supports dozens of customer teams with unique needs Develop innovative detection approaches in a rapidly evolving landscape. Use a data-driven lens to think creatively, strategically, and adversarially to identify opportunities. Shape the team's roadmap and technical direction. Drive execution, establish strong technical foundations, and mentor junior engineers. Partner with Moderation Operations, PM, Data, and stakeholders across Roblox. You have: Over 7 years of experience in designing and building deep learning solutions for speech and language modeling. Capable of breaking down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. Experience in launching computer vision models into production. MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Speech and Language Modeling, Deep Learning, or a related field. You are: Resourceful: You're adaptable in any situation and can always find a path forward. Analytical: Excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and quantify 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. You are a sought-after mentor. You foster a culture of technical excellence. Mission Oriented: You stay laser-focused on the mission and are versatile, creative, and strategic to achieve it. You think long-term, and find ways to deliver short-term value on the way to get there. 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 as described on this page. Annual Salary Range $289,460—$338,270 USD Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted). Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.

Responsibilities

Build end-to-end ML systems to detect and address problematic voice communication and content on Roblox. Drive the evolution of speech moderation into a scalable system that supports various customer teams.