WHY CONTENT SAFETY?

As a Principal Software Engineer (Machine Learning) on Content Safety, you’ll build systems to ensure that user-generated content across Roblox is safe and civil, including experiences, images, and much more. You’ll work on some of the most challenging problems we face, from inappropriate images to exploitative 3D models to misleading 3D experiences. Safety and Civility is Roblox’s #1 priority, and our mission is to protect our community. You will report to an engineering leader on our Content Safety Team.

You Are:

• A Technical Leader: You have initiated and facilitated challenging technical solutions. Your technical expertise influences product direction. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
• Resourceful: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You identify opportunities and then apply your breadth of skills to make them happen. You are adaptable in any situation.
• Analytical: You’re excited to investigate large, ambiguous problems, and see the opportunities hidden in the data. You can 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. You focus relentlessly on the end goal.
• Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. You foster a culture of technical excellence.

You Will:

• Report to our Engineering Manager of Content Safety
• Build systems to detect and address problematic content on Roblox. You will work on building backend services working at high scale, ML models to detect unsafe content of all types, and tools to support our review operation teams.
• Define and build platform features to support product teams across the company in ensuring safety in every part of Roblox.
• Help define the team’s roadmap and long-term strategy towards keeping content and features on Roblox safe.
• Shape how the next generation of internet users interacts safely in the metaverse

You Have:

• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 8+ years of experience building and shipping products to production.
• 5+ years of experience identifying and driving solutions to difficult problems that span multiple teams and require deep technical expertise.
• 5+ years of experience developing large-scale customer-facing user experiences.
• 5+ years experience shipping scaled ML models in production.