Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

Location: San Mateo, California, United States; onsite Tuesday through Thursday with optional office presence Monday and Friday

Salary: $399,420–$457,970 USD annual base pay

Company

Roblox provides a 3D creation platform and game development tools used by millions of creators and players worldwide.

What you will do

• Design and build production-grade agentic AI systems for the AI-native Roblox Studio IDE, including planning, execution, validation, and evaluation.
• Define how coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management support the Assistant and creator workflows.
• Establish quantitative and qualitative AI evaluation pipelines with human-in-the-loop review.
• Optimize AI systems for latency, throughput, and cost using caching, routing, distillation, and quantization.
• Develop reusable applied-AI patterns and raise technical quality across Studio engineering teams.

Requirements

• 12+ years of engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms.
• Hands-on production experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems beyond chat interfaces.
• Strong systems and software engineering skills, including architecture design and coding.
• Experience defining AI evaluation frameworks using automated metrics and human review.
• Experience optimizing inference for latency, throughput, and cost.
• Strong background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms and the ability to set technical direction as an individual contributor.

Nice to have

• Experience with coding models or code-generation systems.
• Research experience in reinforcement learning, RLHF, RLAIF, preference modeling, or related model-training techniques.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI systems that support the creativity of millions of Roblox creators.
• Collaborate across platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience.
• Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
• Roblox provides equal employment opportunities and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.
• For US-based roles, future H-1B sponsorship may not be supported, and certain US visa categories may not be eligible.