[2027] Applied Scientist PhD Intern

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.

At Roblox we believe advanced research belongs in production driving core algorithmic advances at a global scale. Machine Learning is a key growth lever powering everything from real-time 3D generative AI to complex ecosystem economics across our global platform. As an Applied Scientist - PhD Intern youll be part of a community of curious scientists and engineers building the foundational and applied ML methods at a scale of millions of daily active users and billions of daily AI requests. We combine innovative researchincluding Computer Vision and Graphics multimodality NLP and recommendation systemswith world scaling distributed engineering.

During your 12 or 16 week internship in the Winter Summer or Fall youll own a high-impact project from ideation and experimentation to production and publication. Theres also the possibility of continued collaboration beyond your internship as we support experimentation and production with top researchers engineers faculty and PhD candidates globally that can lead to publications at esteemed venues.

You Will

• Prototype experiment with and deploy advanced AI machine learning and 3D technologies to solve real-world challenges at scale.
• Translate cutting-edge research into production-ready features alongside our community of curious cross-functional engineering and product teams.
• Develop deliver and optimize solutions that measurably enhance user experience safety and creativity on our platform.

You Have

• Possess or are pursuing a PhD in computer science engineering or a related field with a thesis aligned to Robloxs research areas.
• Deep expertise in a relevant technical domain including deep learning computer vision NLP reinforcement learning or distributed systems.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python C Go Java) with experience building and optimizing large-scale systems.
• A strong research track record evidenced by multiple publications and presentations in highly regarded peer-reviewed venues.

You may redact age date of birth and dates of attendance/graduation from your resume.