Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

Required

• 12+ years of engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms.
• Deep, hands-on experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems in production, beyond chat-based interfaces.
• Strong systems and software engineering skills, with the ability to design the architecture and write the code.
• A track record of defining evaluation frameworks for AI product quality, combining automated metrics with human review, and optimizing inference for latency, throughput, and cost.
• Strong background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms, with a proven ability to set technical direction and raise quality across multiple teams as an individual contributor.
• Preferred Qualifications: Background in coding models or code-generation systems, and/or research experience in reinforcement learning (RLHF, RLAIF, preference modeling) or related model-training techniques.
• An innovative technical leader who wants to build the AI systems that power the creativity of millions.
• Product-minded, with a real understanding of developer needs, creator workflows, and how AI systems land in the user experience.
• Adaptable and curious, with good judgment about when to build, when to reuse, and when to push a need back to a model team.
• Able to operate at the deepest technical levels and still communicate direction clearly to partners.
• 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.
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