Roblox is looking to secure user accounts, detect suspicious behavior, and improve onboarding by building machine learning solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years in demonstrated expertise building, deploying, and maintaining ML models for classification, anomaly detection, or fraud prevention at large scale.
- Experience leading high-impact ML projects and setting technical direction at an organizational level.
- Deep skills in data modeling, feature engineering, ML architecture, and evaluation.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers, lead technical discussions, and drive adoption of ML best practices across teams.
- Fluency in Python and major ML/data science libraries.
- Experience collaborating with stakeholders outside engineering to clarify goals and drive alignment.
- Bonus: Experience with account security and authentication, or detection of spam/abuse/growth risk.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design, development, and deployment of advanced ML models for account security, including account takeover detection and anomaly detection in authentication flows.
- Identify, propose, and lead new ML initiatives that enhance both user security and onboarding experience.
- Oversee ML project lifecycles end-to-end, from scoping and data collection to modeling, evaluation, productionization, and ongoing monitoring.
- Define and enforce standards for ML model quality, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to ML engineers and set best practices for the broader Accounts organization.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, data scientists, engineers, and UX teams to align technical solutions with business priorities.
- Influence the long-term technical direction and roadmap for ML in account security across Roblox.
Other
- 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 for all candidates during the interview process.
- Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
