Senior Technical Director on Discovery

8 Minutes ago • 15 Years + • $448,990 PA - $515,210 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect in 3D immersive digital experiences. Roblox is building tools and a platform to empower its community to bring any imagined experience to life, aiming to reimagine human connection globally. As a Senior Technical Director on Discovery, you will lead the technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives across search and discovery teams. The mission is to connect a billion users with the best content at the right time, covering diverse search and recommendation problems at high scale, crucial for personalizing user experience and driving engagement.
Must have:
  • Own the technical direction and implementation for machine learning solutions powering search and recommendation systems.
  • Author specs for new features and improvements.
  • Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor.
  • Become an authority on our technology stack and ensure new solutions are built correctly.
  • Collaborate with other Roblox teams to build products with a community and company-first attitude.
  • Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to realize research efforts into Roblox products.
  • Collaborate with the industry and communities where applicable and be an ambassador for Roblox.
Good to have:
  • MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related discipline
Perks:
  • Equity compensation
  • Benefits

Job Details

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.

As a Senior Technical Director on Discovery, you’ll be in charge of the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives across search and discovery teams. The mission of these teams is to connect a billion users with the best connections and content at the right time, covering a very diverse range of search and recommendation problems at a high scale. This is fundamental to how we personalize the experience to drive engagement and retention for Roblox users. With daily active users growing at a record rate, we are looking for expert tech leaders who are passionate about crafting and building machine learning solutions to power Search and Recommendations.

You Will:

  • Own the technical direction and implementation for the machine learning solutions that power the search and recommendation systems, driving Roblox content distribution.
  • Author specs for new features and improvements
  • Lead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor and create an engineering culture of excellence
  • Become an authority on our technology stack and make sure we always build new solutions the right way
  • Collaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community and company first attitude.
  • Balance researching new technologies with a practical approach to realize the research efforts into the Roblox products
  • Collaborate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox.

You Have:

  • 15+ years of experience and a consistent record of delivering and improving large-scale search and recommendation systems.
  • Experience crafting and building large scale machine learning models with billions of parameters and launching them into production.
  • The capability of breaking down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages.
  • Initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. You are empathetic and find common understanding.
  • Deep technical expertise, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers.
  • A generalist approach and you have mastered several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation.
  • The ability roll up your sleeves to tackle data problems or machine learning problems when they come up.
  • A creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places.
  • BS in Computer Science or a related discipline, MS/PhD are a definite plus.

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.

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