About the company
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.
Responsibilities
- Grow our organization by attracting and retaining the best talent in AI engineering and applied ML.
- Own the technical strategy for our agentic AI stack — balancing speed, reliability, and creator experience.
- Balance researching emerging AI capabilities with a practical approach to shipping them into the Roblox product.
- Lead other engineers by example, through technical direction, and by authoring specs for new features and architectural improvements.
- Put the Roblox creator community first and represent the company through thought leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in large-scale software deployments with a proven track record of leading large teams (15+) and delivering highly performant technical solutions.
- Experience building or leading teams that ship AI/ML-powered products in production.
- BS in Computer Science; MS/PhD are a definite plus.
- Experience with agentic systems, LLM orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and the operational challenges of shipping AI features reliably at scale.
- Strategic vision: You can identify high-impact opportunities, shape them into a roadmap, and get buy-in from leadership and partner teams to make them happen.
- Building partnerships: You have a track record of working across organizational boundaries — aligning with partner teams on shared goals, navigating competing priorities, and driving joint execution on complex cross-team initiatives.
- Team-orientation: You have a personality that invigorates the team around you and you are used to leading and growing technical teams in any situation.
Conditions
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Free catered lunches and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
- A Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
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: $345,040 — $399,420 USD
Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).