Roblox Corporation is hiring: Scientist / Senior Scientist, Ads Systems in San M

San Mateo, CA, United States Data Science & Analytics ID: 6225

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 DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS?
The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of our business decisions and to empower and scale product innovations. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum, including analytical data engineering, product analytics, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, economics, and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product groups, we use this vast tool belt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure the impact / incrementality on our community of players, developers, and advertisers.

WHY ADVERTISING SCIENCE?
Advertising at Roblox is new, facing critical scale, effectiveness, and implementation challenges, while operating in our civility and user focused experiences. As a new strategic area, work will be innovative and impactful. Scientific rigor will be critical in success as we organize our data model, design principled measurement systems, and architect the future of incrementality measurement and actioning, to enable our communities.

In this role, you will contribute to the new Ads Science team within the broader Economy DSA team, collaborating with engineers and product managers to innovate our advertising systems and operations. Work will include data pipeline design and ownership, modeling for ad delivery and targeting, modeling for user segmentation / experimentation, and experimental design and analysis. We are early in this multi-year journey, and seek a dedicated and passionate scientist to help design this vision and execute the innovation to achieve it.

You Will:

Design and lead offline model evaluation end-to-end (pipelines, frameworks, analysis).

Contribute to ads ML feature and model improvements, collaborating with engineering to put these in production.

Build offline evaluation and simulation models for our ads marketplace.

Accelerate product development through your understanding of the underlying data and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights.

Lead experimental design and analysis for your ads domain.

Design science roadmaps and experimentation agendas to determine success of product feature launches.

You Have:

Domain experience in digital ads systems, including ownership of critical analytic or production pipelines.

4+ years of industry or academic experience in data science, economics, analytics, or machine learning engineering.

Expertise in data transformation and programming, and proficiency in developing data pipelines through use of Spark, Hive, and Airflow.

Experience with auctions and experimentation in market settings.

Graduate education in a technical field (preferred: rigorous applied training including a graduate degree in economics, statistics, bioinformatics, cognitive science, physics, or similar).

You Are:

Candid on relative opportunities for impact, and evidence-seeking to update beliefs.

Passionate about Roblox’s mission to connect a billion people every day with optimism and civility, including through increasing earnings for our creator community.

A strong communicator. You understand that analysis must be presented in meaningful ways and lead spirited discussions about the findings. You can explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and discuss appropriate tradeoffs.

Effective in a collaborative work environment with a track record of simplifying complex and ambiguous problems.

Annual Salary Range

$248,740 — $322,820 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.

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

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In Summary: The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency, and acumen of our business decisions . We're on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there . You will contribute to the new Ads Science team within the broader Economy DSA team .

En Español: San Mateo, CA, Estados Unidos Data Science & Analytics ID: 6225 Cada día, decenas de millones de personas vienen a Roblox para explorar, crear, jugar, aprender y conectarse con amigos en experiencias digitales inmersivas 3D todas creadas por nuestra comunidad global de desarrolladores y creadores. En Roblox, estamos construyendo las herramientas y plataformas que permitan a nuestra comunidad dar vida a cualquier experiencia que puedan imaginarse. Nuestra visión es reimaginar la forma en que la gente se une, desde cualquier lugar del mundo, y en cualquier dispositivo. Estamos en una misión de conectar mil millones de people con optimismo y civilidad, y buscando increíbles talentos para ayudarnos a obtener talento. Una carrera en Roblox significa que trabajarás allí para moldear el futuro de la interacción humana, resolver desafíos técnicos a escala, y crear experiencias únicas más seguras y compartidas para todos. Alineados y en asociación con grupos de productos, utilizamos este vasto cinturón de herramientas para descubrir nuevas oportunidades y casos de uso insatisfechos, influir y dar forma a la hoja de ruta del producto y priorizar, construir productos de datos y medir el impacto / incrementalidad sobre nuestra comunidad de jugadores, desarrolladores y anunciantes. ¿Por qué ADVERTISING SCIENCE? La publicidad en Roblox es nueva, enfrenta desafíos críticos de escala, eficacia y implementación, mientras opera en nuestra civilización y experiencias centradas en los usuarios. Como un nuevo área estratégica, el trabajo será innovador e impactante. El rigor científico será fundamental para el éxito al organizar nuestro modelo de datos, diseñar sistemas de medición basado en principios, y arquitectar el futuro de la medición y acción incremental, para capacitar nuestras comunidades. En este papel, usted contribuirá al nuevo equipo dentro del equipo más amplio Economy DSA, colaborando con ingenieros y gerentes de sistemas de marketing de datos para diseñar nuestros proyectos de diseño y diseño comercial, diseño de modelos y segmentación de negocios, así como las operaciones de diseños y experimentaciones comerciales/anunciencia, planeación y diseña de servicios de negocio. Estamos temprano en este viaje de varios años, y buscamos un científico dedicado y apasionado que ayude a diseñar esta visión y ejecutar la innovación para lograrla. Diseñará y liderará la evaluación del modelo offline de extremo a extremo (pipelines, marcos, análisis). Contribuirá a los anuncios mejoras de características ML y modelos, colaborando con la ingeniería para ponerlos en producción. Construye modelos de evaluación y simulación fuera de línea para nuestro mercado publicitario. Acelerar el desarrollo del producto mediante su comprensión de los datos subyacentes y su capacidad de asociarse con líderes técnicos y experimentales para proporcionar información. Usted entiende que el análisis debe presentarse de manera significativa y llevar a discusiones animadas sobre los hallazgos. Roblox ofrece oportunidades laborales iguales para todos los empleados y solicitantes de empleo y prohíbe discriminación y acoso de cualquier tipo sin importar la raza, color, religión, edad, sexo, origen nacional, estatus de discapacidad, genética, categoría protegida del veterano, orientación sexual, identidad o expresión de género u otras características protegidas por las leyes federales o estatales.