Senior Child Safety Intelligence Analyst

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 were 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. Were 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 youll 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 Child Safety Intelligence Analyst on Robloxs Safety Intelligence Team you will be on the front lines protecting the platforms youngest and most vulnerable users. This is a proactive intelligence role focused on identifying tracking and disrupting systemic threats to minors to include child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSAE) grooming behaviors peer-to-peer harassment financial minor extortion (sextortion) and bad-actor networks trying to exploit platform features to victimize minors. You will blend quantitative and qualitative data open-source intelligence (OSINT) behavioral analysis and deep knowledge of online culture to uncover adversarial trends before they impact the platform ecosystem and provide your analysis to teams across Roblox and company leadership. Your insights will directly shape automated detection logic product safety features and platform policy.

Psychological Wellness Note: This role involves exposure to highly sensitive and potentially disturbing themes regarding the exploitation of minors. Roblox offers resources to support employees handling this challenging work.

This role is based in San Mateo CA and requires employees to be in the office Tuesday through Thursday.

You Will:

• Intelligence and Threat Collection: Proactively hunt threats by monitoring the platform and external channels to map out threat actors evasion techniques and emerging trends targeting minors in online surfaces. Lead all-source intelligence collection planning for CE risks.
• Data and Signal Development: Analyze text voice assets in-game economies and social mechanics to isolate behavioral indicators of new or developing child safety risks. Collaborate with data science and engineering teams to translate intelligence findings into automated heuristics keywords and machine learning signals to catch bad actors at scale.
• Product Risk Advisory: Support the development of new platform features by identifying minor safety vulnerabilities before launch.
• Metrics and Reporting: Author comprehensive threat briefings and intelligence products for Safety leadership and cross-functional teams.
• Third-Party Partnerships: Represent Roblox externally with third-parties to include NGOs and industry partners and support third-party intelligence gathering.
• Mentoring: Coach junior teammates on analytic tradecraft and intelligence work.

You Have:

• Deep understanding of the global child safety landscape adversarial behavior online and common vectors of minor exploitation (CSAM/CSAE financial grooming account takeovers).
• 7-10 years of experience in Trust & Safety Threat Intelligence Digital Forensics or Cybercrime Investigations (preferably within gaming social media or live-streaming ecosystems).
• A bachelors degree in criminology data analytics cybersecurity international relations or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience identifying sources for intelligence collection to identify risks in a gaming social or other media platform environment and building a collection plan.
• Proficiency in SQL or Python to query large datasets and isolate behavioral anomalies.
• Experience with OSINT tools and methodologies (e.g. Maltego social media mapping domain analysis).
• Native familiarity with modern gaming mechanics (in-game economies modding communities cross-play) and youth digital culture/slang.
• Proven ability to maintain personal well-being and operational rigor while occasionally reviewing highly sensitive distressing or taboo content