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Principal Data Scientist - Safety
Roblox Corporation · 🇺🇸 San Mateo, CA, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 197 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 48 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Roblox Corporation paid sponsored hires in similar roles25 certified filings for “Senior Data Scientist” (Data Scientists) in CA: $209k–$301k, median $249k. Most were filed at wage level IV (44%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 197 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 48 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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, we’re 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. We’re 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 you’ll 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. WHY DATA SCIENCE & ANALYTICS? 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, experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling and machine learning. Aligned and partnering with product verticals, we use this extensive tool belt 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. WHY CONTENT SAFETY? Content safety and moderation are paramount to maintaining a positive, engaging, and trustworthy platform experience for our global community. In this role, you will apply your expertise in data science, statistics, and causal inference to strategically define, measure, and improve the detection and mitigation of harmful user-generated content and violative on-platform behaviors. Your focus will be on asset-based content across the platform - including games, avatars, and emerging in-game behaviors - by establishing reliable ground truth datasets and developing robust prevalence measurement methodologies. You will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Legal, Policy, and Compliance teams, acting as the quantitative expert who guides our defensive strategy against evolving safety threats and ensures accountability and scalable solutions. This is a critical opportunity to build innovative detection systems, define what we measure, and prove the impact of our safety efforts. YOU WILL: • Establish and monitor robust prevalence measurement methodologies to accurately quantify the overall level of harmful content and behavior on the platform, providing the authoritative source of truth for organizational safety goals. • Develop and validate comprehensive ground truth datasets for harmful UGC and violative on-platform behaviors, ensuring high quality and alignment with the latest platform policies. • Deepen our understanding of violations by conducting exploratory analysis on current and emerging threat landscapes, providing data-backed recommendations on where Product and Engineering should strategically invest detection and moderation resources. • Design, implement, and analyze sophisticated experiments for new moderation and safety enforcement features, communicating results to our primary partners in Product and Engineering to guide development, while also collaborating closely with Policy, Compliance, and Legal teams for full strategic alignment. • Leverage advanced causal inference methodologies to accurately measure the effectiveness and potential systemic impacts of various safety initiatives on player experience and platform integrity. • Communicate strategic insights and present recommendations to leadership and all cross-functional partners, translating complex st