Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

The role

You will own the technical direction of agentic AI systems embedded in Roblox Studio. You will design architecture, write code, and build production-grade AI systems for an AI-Native IDE.

What you will do

• Design and build agentic AI systems for the AI-Native IDE
• Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management
• Own the quality bar and evaluation strategy including human-in-the-loop pipelines
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost
• Bring reusable patterns and best practices to Studio teams

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience
• Ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms
• Deep, hands-on experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems in production
• Strong systems and software engineering skills
• Ability to design architecture and write code
• Track record of defining evaluation frameworks for AI product quality
• Experience optimizing inference for latency, throughput, and cost
• Strong background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms
• Ability to set technical direction and raise quality across multiple teams as an individual contributor

Nice to have

• Background in coding models or code-generation systems
• Research experience in reinforcement learning (RLHF, RLAIF, preference modeling) or related model-training techniques

Benefits

• Equity compensation
• Benefits as described on this page

Before you apply

• Company may not be able to employ candidates who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories
• Company may not support future H-1B sponsorship at this time

About the company

Roblox is building tools and a platform that empower a global community of developers and creators to bring immersive 3D experiences to life. The company aims to connect a billion people with optimism and civility.