At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems , with a ...

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At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems , with a ...
At Roblox , we're building the tools and platform that empower a global community of creators and ... Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems , with a ...
At Roblox , we're building the tools and platform that empower a global community of creators and ... Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems , with a ...
Principal Software Engineer - Economy ML (Data Systems)
San Mateo, CA · On-site +1
$153K - $206K/yr
Who We Are: Shape the future of Roblox's virtual economy. The Economy ML team is building the ... As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems) , you will architect, build and deploy high-scale ...
Principal Software Engineer - Economy ML (Data Systems)
San Mateo, CA · On-site +1
$153K - $206K/yr
Who We Are: Shape the future of Roblox's virtual economy. The Economy ML team is building the ... As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems) , you will architect, build and deploy high-scale ...
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$196K - $243K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems. What You Will Do As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer ...
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$196K - $243K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems. What You Will Do As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer ...
Principal Software Engineer - Economy ML (Data Systems)
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$295K - $354K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems) , you will architect, build and deploy high-scale ...
Principal Software Engineer - Economy ML (Data Systems)
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$295K - $354K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... As a Principal Software Engineer (Data Systems) , you will architect, build and deploy high-scale ...
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$196K - $243K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems. What You Will Do As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer ...
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$196K - $243K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems. What You Will Do As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer ...
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems - PhD Early Career
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$195K - $242K/yr
... developers and creators ... At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ...
[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems - PhD Early Career
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$195K - $242K/yr
... developers and creators ... At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ...
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Economy Platform
San Mateo, CA · Remote
$153K - $206K/yr
The Economy Platform team is the owner for all systems powering Robux transactions and has the goal of maintaining Roblox's Economy healthy and vibrant. As a Principal Software Engineer for Virtual ...
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Economy Platform
San Mateo, CA · Remote
$153K - $206K/yr
The Economy Platform team is the owner for all systems powering Robux transactions and has the goal of maintaining Roblox's Economy healthy and vibrant. As a Principal Software Engineer for Virtual ...
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Economy Platform
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$293K - $343K/yr
Those systems enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while processing billions of transactions. The ideal candidate is someone with ...
Principal Software Engineer - Roblox Economy Platform
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$293K - $343K/yr
Those systems enable developers to monetize their games on Roblox, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per year, while processing billions of transactions. The ideal candidate is someone with ...
Recommendation Systems are a key growth lever at Roblox, driving retention, engagement, and ... Collaborate with applied researchers, engineers, and product teams to advance experimentation and ...
Recommendation Systems are a key growth lever at Roblox, driving retention, engagement, and ... Collaborate with applied researchers, engineers, and product teams to advance experimentation and ...
Roblox's engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we're looking for a seasoned engineering leader ... You have experience defining architecture for AI systems at scale and are excited about the ...
Roblox's engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we're looking for a seasoned engineering leader ... You have experience defining architecture for AI systems at scale and are excited about the ...
Roblox's engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we're looking for a seasoned engineering leader ... You have experience defining architecture for AI systems at scale and are excited about the ...
Roblox's engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we're looking for a seasoned engineering leader ... You have experience defining architecture for AI systems at scale and are excited about the ...
Senior / Principal Infrastructure Engineer - ML Platform
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$278K - $345K/yr
As an Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform team, you will design, scale, and maintain the ... Roblox a delight to use. You have: * 6+ years of professional experience and a tool chest of system ...
Senior / Principal Infrastructure Engineer - ML Platform
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$278K - $345K/yr
As an Infrastructure Engineer on the ML Platform team, you will design, scale, and maintain the ... Roblox a delight to use. You have: * 6+ years of professional experience and a tool chest of system ...
Senior Mobile Systems Engineer, Audio Team (Android & C++)
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$242K - $293K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... Console programming experience (PlayStation, Xbox, etc.) * Bonus: Systems-level Bluetooth ...
Senior Mobile Systems Engineer, Audio Team (Android & C++)
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$242K - $293K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... Console programming experience (PlayStation, Xbox, etc.) * Bonus: Systems-level Bluetooth ...
Senior Software Engineer - Data Access
$139K - $183K/yr
EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful ...
Senior Software Engineer - Data Access
$139K - $183K/yr
EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful ...
Senior Software Engineer - Data Access
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$243K - $295K/yr
EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful ...
Senior Software Engineer - Data Access
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$243K - $295K/yr
EaaS abstracts the complexity of distributed databases and caching systems behind a consistent and productive developer experience, enabling teams across Roblox to safely build and operate stateful ...
Senior Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$242K - $293K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... You have: * Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. * Have experience ...
Senior Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$242K - $293K/yr
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience ... You have: * Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. * Have experience ...
Principal Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA · Hybrid
$153K - $206K/yr
In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in ... You have: * Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. * Have experience ...
Principal Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA · Hybrid
$153K - $206K/yr
In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in ... You have: * Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. * Have experience ...
Senior Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA · Hybrid
$139K - $183K/yr
In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in ... You have: * Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. * Have experience ...
Senior Software Engineer, Engine Systems
San Mateo, CA · Hybrid
$139K - $183K/yr
In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in ... You have: * Experience developing outstanding systems-level C++ programming. * Have experience ...
Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$399K - $457K/yr
Strong systems and software engineering skills , with the ability to design the architecture and ... Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and ...
Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio
San Mateo, CA · On-site
$399K - $457K/yr
Strong systems and software engineering skills , with the ability to design the architecture and ... Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and ...
ROBLOX Jobs Information
What is it like to work at Roblox?
The company has a flat organizational structure, allowing for open communication and flexibility, and its headquarters in San Mateo, California, features an open-concept workspace with amenities such as game rooms, fitness centers, and on-site cafes. Roblox's mission is to bring people together through play and creativity, with a focus on developing a platform that enables users to build, share, and play a wide variety of games and experiences.
Working at Roblox may appeal to candidates who are passionate about gaming, technology, and creativity, as the company offers opportunities to work on cutting-edge projects, collaborate with a diverse team of experts, and contribute to the development of a platform that has a significant impact on the lives of millions of users worldwide.
What makes Roblox an attractive place to work?

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Job description
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.
At Roblox, we're building the tools and platform that empower a global community of creators and developers to build immersive experiences and a dynamic virtual economy. Our Economy ML team sits at the heart of this mission, delivering scalable machine learning systems that power personalization, pricing, search, and content understanding across all Economy surfaces: Marketplace, Developer Monetization, Payments, and Avatar.
We're looking for a Distinguished Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems, with a focus on large-scale recommendations, infrastructure, and emerging Generative AI applications. You'll help build the systems that support retrieval, ranking, generative modeling, and LLM-powered personalization, all at massive scale. This role requires deep systems thinking, hands-on ML expertise, and a vision for how traditional ML and GenAI come together to power the future of the Roblox economy.
Why Roblox for ML Systems
- AI/ML is a top company priority, with long-term investment.
- Real-world scale: Power millions of daily economic interactions across ranking, pricing, fraud, and search.
- Full-system ownership: Build and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines; from data ingestion to GPU training to live inference.
- Complex surfaces, rich signals: Design systems for 3D content, UGC, avatar metadata, behavioral and economic signals, not just text or images.
- Impact meets innovation: Shape the future of the Roblox economy while working on frontier ML infra and GenAI workflows.
- Set the technical direction for ML systems powering core economy experiences: personalization, ranking, generative modeling, and more
- Build and evolve infrastructure for training, serving, and evaluating both traditional ML models and Generative AI models (e.g., embedding-based retrieval, transformers, LLM-based workflows)
- Partner with GenAI teams to explore multi-modal embeddings, avatar generation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in economic surfaces
Lead efforts to optimize ML system performance: low-latency serving, efficient GPU training, and cost-aware inference strategies - Guide the development of robust ML pipelines, online feature stores, and experimentation platforms that support both predictive and generative use cases
- Collaborate with EMs, tech leads, and product partners to align technical architecture with business priorities
- Mentor senior engineers and help establish a strong technical culture across the Economy ML team
- Ensure robustness, observability, and scalability of ML systems that power millions of daily economic interactions
- Own the architecture behind some of Roblox's most foundational ML systems
- Work across groups at Roblox to advance the state of ML/AI at the company.
- Help scale a fast-growing ML organization and define Roblox's future economy intelligence stack
- Solve real-world problems with real user impact, powering millions of personalized, intelligent economic interactions every day
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering or ML infrastructure, with a strong focus on large-scale ML systems
- Deep expertise in building recommendation systems, ranking infrastructure, or real-time personalization engines
- Hands-on experience with Generative AI, such as transformer-based models, LLMs, embeddings, or RAG pipelines
- Proven experience with distributed training, model deployment, and GPU-accelerated workflows
- Strong understanding of ML system architecture: data pipelines, feature stores, inference optimization, experimentation tooling
- Systems-first mindset with strong instincts around scale, cost, performance, and reliability
- Track record of leading large technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
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 as described on this page.
Annual Salary Range
$397,460-$455,720 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Roblox also provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About ROBLOX
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Industry
Software development
Company size
51 - 200 Employees
Headquarters location
San Mateo, CA, US
Year founded
2004