Senior Software Engineer, Automation Tools (AI)

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; office attendance is required Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday.

Salary: $196,750–$243,290 USD annual base pay, plus equity and benefits.

Company

Roblox develops a platform and tools for creating and experiencing 3D immersive digital experiences across supported devices.

What you will do

• Build and scale test automation frameworks, runners, orchestration services, device-farm integrations, and supporting infrastructure.
• Develop AI-native tooling for test authoring, selection, execution, maintenance, failure triage, and automated debugging.
• Connect test planning, selection, execution, and failure analysis to improve infrastructure efficiency and feedback speed.
• Implement intelligent test selection that balances coverage, validation confidence, execution time, and infrastructure cost.
• Integrate automated quality checks and actionable feedback into development and CI/CD workflows.
• Own technical initiatives from problem definition and design through deployment, adoption, measurement, and improvement while collaborating across engineering teams.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, testing, and operating production software in large codebases.
• Strong programming skills in C++, Python, Go, or another modern programming language.
• Ability to write maintainable, reliable, and well-tested code.
• Experience solving complex engineering problems and owning projects end to end.
• Ability to communicate technical decisions clearly and collaborate with application, platform, QA, infrastructure, and developer productivity teams.
• Ability to work from the San Mateo, California office on the required onsite days.

Nice to have

• Experience with Appium, Selenium, or comparable cross-platform test automation frameworks.
• Experience testing mobile, desktop, or game applications.
• Experience applying LLMs, agents, or other AI techniques to developer tools.
• Experience integrating automated quality checks into large-scale software development workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on systems supporting mobile, desktop, console, and VR platforms.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Reasonable accommodations are available during the recruiting process for qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.
• The company may not support future H-1B sponsorship for this US-based role and may be unable to employ candidates with certain US visa categories.