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Posted 6 hours agoDistinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy
at roblox
San Mateo United States, United StatesOn-site
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Responsibilities
- Complex surfaces, rich signals : Design systems for 3D content, UGC, avatar metadata, behavioral and economic signals, not just text or images.
- 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)
- 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
- Solve real-world problems with real user impact, powering millions of personalized, intelligent economic interactions every day You have: 10+ years of
- Track record of leading large technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
- Why Roblox for ML Systems
- AI/ML is a top company priority , with long-term investment.
- Full-system ownership : Build and optimize end-to-end ML pipelines; from data ingestion to GPU training to live inference.
- Impact meets innovation : Shape the future of the Roblox economy while working on frontier ML infra and GenAI workflows. You will:
- Set the technical direction for ML systems powering core economy experiences: personalization, ranking, generative modeling, and more
- Partner with GenAI teams to explore multi-modal embeddings, avatar generation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in economic surfaces
- 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
- 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
- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
Benefits
- Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device.
- 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.
- 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
- Annual Salary Range $397,460 — $455,720 USD
- 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.
Additional details
- 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
- We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.
- 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.
- Real-world scale : Power millions of daily economic interactions across ranking, pricing, fraud, and search.
- Systems-first mindset with strong instincts around scale, cost, performance, and reliability
- 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.