Roblox | Onsite (San Mateo, CA) | Principal Full-Stack Engineer
Technical lead for the Knowledge engineering team, leading efforts such as AI tutors, personalized Learning, automated documentation pipelines, and social learning
As a Principal Software Engineer on the Creator Marketplace Team team you'll have the independence, opportunity, and the end-to-end responsibility for challenging, complex, important services within the Roblox ecosystem.
The Creator Marketplace Team empowers Roblox to accelerate the development of 3D experiences by providing assets and tools to meet any need. Creators can publish plugins, models, audio and other assets to Roblox Studio for developers to use in their experiences. Today we have tens of millions of assets in the marketplace, making search quality of critical importance.
An accomplished programmer in one or more of these languages: Java, Python or C#/C++. 5+ years experience.
Experienced in analyzing Search and document data using some of the following technologies: Airflow, SQL, Hive, Spark, ElasticSearch, MapReduce, Pig.
Only works if your company somehow already had the culture of actually using the breakroom or happy hour. If you're at a workaholic workplace where everyone already ate at their desk, or left the building to avoid everyone, a product like this has a real uphill battle.
Maybe you can find a way to break into this kind of mindset / market. Kongregate had a lot of great content, this implies you have a good team. I really wish you luck, we need things like this.
I teach at the high school level. I don’t think we have figured it out yet; however, my personal belief is that it would require the crevasse between the high-volume/low-stakes instruction-focused assessment (which cannot be “trusted“ generally) with standardized assessment (which can be “trusted”)to be bridged in such a manner that the daily assessment that takes place all across the country, every single day, can be viewed as legitimate measures of student capability. Without being able to accurately measure student ability day to day, we will not be able to measure teacher effectiveness.
I would love to see a toolset like this come into being, but I have no ability to develop such tools.
To give a little more, attentiveness data would only tell me the student is, for instance, reading a text passage. It offers no insight into how they read the text or to what degree they are applying any instructional concepts to the text. This is useful for instructional purposes (if delivered to the teacher in such a way that they can quickly scan the room and grok what’s happening - but that’s getting into AR territory), but it doesn’t do much for the larger goal.
Assessment can give me that kind of information; hence, my belief that making instruction-based assessment more globally trustable is the key component.
Again, I would love to see something like this come to be. I’d love to jump ship and work on it full time. It would not only provide significant academic advantages, but also make increased teacher compensation politically palatable. If we can measure teacher effectiveness, then we can reward it. If we can’t, we use tenure.
I'd like to see a compromise on this. If there's a passenger, they should be able to use a touchscreen. For someone not used to the car, a scroll wheel is going to feel very weird. And obviously safety isn't much of an issue if the passenger is controlling it.
Cars already know whether a passenger is present of course.
Technical lead for the Knowledge engineering team, leading efforts such as AI tutors, personalized Learning, automated documentation pipelines, and social learning
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