[2027] Data Scientist - PhD Intern

Foundation AI: Our AI evaluation team focuses on generating high-quality models and consistently improving our evaluation models.

Safety: Managing account relationships and the real-time morphing of linguistic mapping.

Economy: Drive creator success and growth by exploring marketplace structure and pricing.

Engine: This team is dedicated to enhancing Roblox's overall stability and performance, enabling all its functionalities.

Social: Analyze user engagement to identify areas for enhancing the user experience and delivering greater value.

Consumer/Growth: Optimize our user’s experience and provide them with UX and content to maximize intention and engagement on the platform.

Creator/Ads and Brands: Understand the long term value and contribution Creators have to the health of Roblox’s ecosystem

Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to research and develop advanced data analytics, causal inference, experiment design and machine learning solutions to power the business and product innovations.

Conduct in-depth research to address complex data-related challenges.

Work on projects that have a real impact on our products, services, and business strategy.

Apply your work to expedite product innovations, including in-experience experiments, friend recommendations, and dynamic resource allocation for experience servers

Present your findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Possessing or pursuing a PhD degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Applied Math, Computer Science, Economics, or Computational Social Science.

At least 1 year of experience doing causal inference or machine learning or experiment design via research or prior internship.

Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g.,SQL,Python or R)

Proficiency in big data query/processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark, or Airflow.

Passion for applying scientific rigor to advance dynamic consumer products.

Experience in developing production solutions is a plus.

Experience with ML modeling

You may redact age, date of birth, and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume if you prefer.

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 hourly rate could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. Please note that not all benefits shown on this page are applicable to internship opportunities.

Hourly Pay Range

$66 — $66 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.