WHY Voice Safety
Safety and Civility is Robloxs #1 priority and our mission is to protect our community. As a Senior/Principal Machine Learning Engineer on the Voice Safety team youll build systems that monitor real-time user interactions including voice chat in-experience communications developer APIs video and more. We build world-class speech recognition and NLP models to keep conversations safe. Robloxs voice safety systems currently process hundreds of thousands of hours of active voice data each day flagging users for profanity hate speech personal information (PII) and other abuses within seconds to help ensure the platform remains safe and civil at all times.
You will:
- Build end-to-end ML systems to detect and address problematic voice communication and content on Roblox.
- Drive the evolution of our speech moderation into a scalable adaptable system that supports dozens of customer teams with unique needs
- Develop innovative detection approaches in a rapidly evolving landscape. Use a data-driven lens to think creatively strategically and adversarially to identify opportunities.
- Shape the teams roadmap and technical direction. Drive execution establish strong technical foundations and mentor junior engineers.
- Partner with Moderation Operations PM Data and stakeholders across Roblox.
You have:
- Over 7 years of experience in designing and building deep learning solutions for speech and language modeling. Capable of breaking down product requirements into iterative deliverable stages. Experience in launching computer vision models into production.
- MS or PhD degree in Computer Science Machine Learning Speech and Language Modeling Deep Learning or a related field.
You are:
- Resourceful: Youre adaptable in any situation and can always find a path forward.
- Analytical: Excited to investigate large ambiguous problems and 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.
- Team Oriented: You lift up your peers and find ways to make the team stronger. You are a sought-after mentor. You foster a culture of technical excellence.
- Mission Oriented: You stay laser-focused on the mission and are versatile creative and strategic to achieve it. You think long-term and find ways to deliver short-term value on the way to get there.
Required Experience:
Staff IC