Roblox
Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio
San Mateo, CA, United States · Director · Full-time
H1B sponsorship available$399k-$458kDetected 12 hours ago
Platform EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIResearchAdaptability
About the role
- Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D games built by creators around the world.
- Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across the Assistant and the broader creator workflow.
- Bring reusable patterns and best practices to teams across Studio, raising the applied-AI fluency of Studio engineering.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) so they are production-grade and reliable.
- Own the quality bar and evaluation strategy, standing up quantitative and qualitative eval pipelines, including human-in-the-loop, so we ship with confidence.
- Optimize these systems for latency, throughput, and cost (caching, routing, distillation, quantization).
- An innovative technical leader who wants to build the AI systems that power the creativity of millions.
- 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.
- This is a hands-on individual-contributor role operating at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, where you will set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms.
- 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.
Nice to have
- Product-minded, with a real understanding of developer needs, creator workflows, and how AI systems land in the user experience.
- For roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below.
Compensation
- $399,420 - $457,970 USD
- This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
- Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range.
- Annual Salary Range
Benefits
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.
Company info
- We are entering a major platform transition, evolving Studio into an AI-Native IDE where intelligent systems plan, act, validate, and iterate alongside creators to amplify their output.
- We are seeking a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of the agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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.
This listing is sourced directly from Roblox's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.