Senior Software Engineer, Computer Graphics (AI)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; office-based roles require onsite presence Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $227,370–$295,250 USD base pay annually

Company

Roblox builds a platform for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital experiences.

What you will do

• Use the Roblox engine to procedurally generate large, high-fidelity 3D datasets for frontier 3D generative AI models.
• Translate AI research requirements into engine features and collaborate with core engine teams on safe, efficient implementation.
• Design, build, and optimize scalable graphics and engine-level systems for spatial, geometric, and visual data generation.
• Integrate synthetic data generation workflows into the existing engine architecture while preserving core performance.
• Shape representations of meshes, materials, lighting, and scene graphs for machine learning applications.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping complex, production-grade software systems.
• Deep expertise in 3D computer graphics, rendering pipelines, and game engine architecture.
• Strong proficiency in systems programming, including C++, with experience writing optimized, scalable code.
• Experience extracting, modifying, or manipulating programmatic data within a complex engine environment.
• Strong communication skills for collaboration between machine learning researchers and low-level systems engineers.
• Background in geometry, linear algebra, or related mathematical fields.

Nice to have

• Experience with machine learning data pipelines, automated synthetic data generation, or 3D generative AI architectures.
• Experience with graphics APIs or frameworks.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on large-scale 3D experiences used by millions of people.
• Collaborate across AI research, core engine, and systems engineering teams.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations are provided.