Roblox
Mid
Lead an ML engineering team fighting rare, high-stakes harms like predatory behavior and child endangerment on Roblox
Roblox is hiring an Engineering Manager for its Critical Harms team within Safety, leading engineers (junior to principal) building high-scale detection systems for rare-event, sparse-data threats such as predatory behavior, extremism, and fraud. Expect questions on leading in an adversarial domain, developing engineers, and partnering with Moderation Operations and Data stakeholders.
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What this interview tests
- Leading engineering teams in an adversarial, high-stakes safety domain
- Rare-event, sparse-data ML detection systems
- Developing engineers across junior-to-principal range
- Cross-functional partnership with Moderation Ops, PM, Data
- Owning team roadmap and technical delivery at scale
- Measuring impact when target events are rare by nature
Common question themes
Describe a high-scale system you built to detect a rare, adversarial harm
Tell me about developing both a junior and a principal engineer on your team
How do you measure success when the harmful events you're preventing are sparse
Walk through resolving a conflict with Moderation Operations or Data stakeholders on priorities
How would you contribute to an architecture discussion on a high-scale ML detection system
Tell me about balancing precision vs. recall tradeoffs for content affecting child safety
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