The Data Science & Analytics organization's mission is to increase our speed, frequency and acumen of making decisions at scale by instilling a data-influenced approach to building products. We cover a wide area of the data spectrum including analytical data engineering, product analytics, causal inference, economics, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive toolbelt to discover new opportunities and unmet use cases, influence and shape the product roadmap and prioritization, build data products and measure impact on our community of players and developers.

You Will:

Help understand customer demand through development and estimation of demand models
Contribute to development of rigorous frameworks to measure marketplace health
Understand community incentives and recommend new mechanisms to advance marketplace health
Help understand monetary dynamics and incentives on Roblox
Accelerate product development through your understanding of the underlying data and your ability to partner with product and technical leaders to provide insights that enhance growth
Access raw data, and then transform it, analyze it, and render it in a compelling way--all using a custom analytics tool kit built from state-of-the-art open-source libraries

You Are:

A PhD candidate (completing at least third year) in Economics, Statistics, Applied Math, Physics, or other technical field
A specialist in an applied technical field relevant to marketplace design and optimization (e.g., empirical industrial organization, multi-sided platform economics, mechanism design, applied microeconomics, or causal machine learning) or policy evaluation (e.g., macroeconomics, monetary policy)
Highly proficient in a scripting language (Python, R)
Proficient in big data query / processing languages and tools such as SQL, Hive, Spark or Airflow
Passionate about applying scientific rigor to advance a dynamic consumer product
Willing to work full-time and onsite

Location: San Mateo, CA

Duration: 12 Weeks (May or June start)

Please note for Intern opportunities the Salary range listed below is hourly.

For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.

Annual Salary Range

$60—$64 USD

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