Distinguished Engineer Machine Learning - Discovery
Distinguished Engineer Machine Learning - Discovery
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Job Description
As a Senior Technical Director on Discovery youll be in charge of the overall technical vision and 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 largescale 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 longterm 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.
Employment Type
Full Time
