Lead Roblox's Safety AI team building multimodal moderation models at platform scale

As Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems at Roblox, you'll own the vision and execution of ML systems that detect harmful content across avatars, images, video, audio, and text, while leading and growing a team of ML engineers. The role requires deep hands-on ML production experience plus real people-management and cross-org influence.

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What this interview tests

Multimodal ML systems (vision-language models) in production
Trust & safety / content moderation model design
Engineering team leadership and mentorship
Cross-functional alignment (Product, Policy, Data Science)
Roadmap planning under ambiguity

Common question themes

Describe launching an ML model from scratch into production at scale

How would you architect a system to detect harmful content across multiple modalities

Tell me about growing and mentoring an ML engineering team

How do you break a long-term ambitious goal into an iterative roadmap

Describe driving consensus on a contested technical decision across teams

How do you balance user freedom against platform safety in a model's design

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