Senior Data Scientist (Monetary Policy)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Base salary: $263,670–$322,820 USD per year, plus potential equity compensation and benefits.

Company

Roblox builds a 3D immersive digital platform where users create, play, learn, and connect through experiences developed by a global community of creators.

What you will do

• Develop macroeconomic models to forecast Robux money supply, velocity, inflation, deflation, and virtual economy health.
• Model currency exchange policies covering fiat-to-Robux pricing, purchasing-power adjustments, and Developer Exchange rates.
• Design counterfactual simulations, causal inference frameworks, and agent-based models for monetary policies, sink/faucet changes, and marketplace fees.
• Analyze platform liquidity and sink/faucet dynamics to identify and prevent systemic economic imbalances.
• Build economic indicators and monitoring systems for macroeconomic health, liquidity risks, and changes in user behavior.
• Partner with Product and Finance leadership to communicate economic trade-offs and shape policy recommendations and company roadmaps.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry or research experience in quantitative economic modeling, econometrics, or simulation frameworks.
• Deep expertise in time series forecasting, causal inference, structural macro modeling, and counterfactual simulation.
• Experience analyzing large-scale transactional or platform data and translating micro-level behavior into macroeconomic insights.
• Ability to lead projects from scratch and convert ambiguous policy or business questions into rigorous quantitative frameworks.
• Advanced degree such as an MSc or PhD in Economics, Econometrics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, Operations Research, Physics, or a related quantitative field.
• For this headquarters-based role, onsite presence is required Tuesday through Thursday in San Mateo, California.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on economic models and policy systems supporting a large-scale virtual economy.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Engineering, Product, and Finance stakeholders.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.