Senior Ai Engineer in San Mateo

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. As a member of the Infrastructure Foundation Hardware Engineering team, you will play a key role in enabling our mission to deliver a reliable, high-performing, and cost-efficient infrastructure that powers the world’s play. In this specialized role, you will be the technical lead for our GPU and AI accelerator ecosystem. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle of GPU hardware, from initial architectural evaluation and firmware qualification to large-scale fleet integration and performance tuning. You will ensure that Roblox’s massive-scale rendering and ML workloads run on the most optimized and stable hardware possible. You Will: Architect & Prototype: Prototype next-generation GPU-accelerated hardware platforms, ensuring seamless integration between high-density compute nodes, high-speed interconnects (NVLink/PCIe Gen5/6), and system firmware. GPU Optimization: Drive the integration, performance testing, and debugging of GPUs in our fleet, focusing specifically on hardware-level optimizations, driver tuning, and thermal/power management. Validation & Certification: Develop and execute rigorous evaluation and stress-testing strategies for GPU-heavy server platforms to ensur

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. Senior Director, Generative AI About the Role Roblox Build is our generative creation product, the platform where creators design, build, and publish 3D experiences. We are looking for a Senior Director of Generative AI to lead the Applied AI organization inside Build, responsible for turning state-of-the-art foundation models into high-quality, reliable creation systems at Roblox scale. This leader will own the full applied AI stack: model strategy and routing, model adaptation and fine-tuning, code generation (CodeGen), 3D layout generation (LayoutGen), and the evaluation science and infrastructure that tells us what actually works. You Will Own model strategy and routing for Build. Design and build an intelligent model layer that selects the right model for each creation task based on quality, capability, latency, cost, and safety, leveraging both frontier models and Roblox-adapted open-source models. Lead model adaptation across the Applied AI org, including fine-tuning, distillation, synthetic data generation, human feedback pipelines, and preference optimization for Roblox-specific creation tasks such as Luau code generation and 3D scene understanding. Drive CodeGen capabilities

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. Senior Engineering Manager, Safety Platform You will lead engineering pods within the Safety Platform organization, driving the technical vision and execution for the foundational systems that power every safety workflow at Roblox. You will own the core safety platform end-to-end: from the shared infrastructure and APIs that enable trust & safety capabilities across the company, to the tooling ecosystem that empowers internal operators to investigate, intervene, and resolve issues at scale. The scope also includes the Safety agentic platform — AI-powered systems that automate and augment safety workflows across detection, enforcement, and review pipelines. As the platform layer beneath every safety surface, your work will define how quickly and reliably Roblox can respond to emerging threats. This role requires a leader with a strong platform mindset who can balance technical rigor with broad organizational impact — working across User Safety, Trust & Safety Policy, Data Science, and Machine Learning to deliver scalable, extensible, and high-availability systems for one of the world's largest platforms. You Will: Lead and Develop: Recruit, hire, mentor, and inspire a diverse team of

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. Roblox's engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we're looking for a seasoned engineering leader to help us scale our AI-powered creation platform and team. As a Senior Engineering Manager within the Creator Group, you will lead the Studio Assistant team — driving the strategy and execution of our agentic AI system that powers creation for millions of Roblox creators. Your team owns everything end-end from the user experience in Studio, to the infrastructure underneath backend by a single cloud-native architecture: one harness, one tool set, one eval framework. Your work will empower millions of creators to plan, generate, and ship content faster than ever before. At Roblox we move fast and ship code to production daily; your leadership will increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. You will identify and mitigate risk and make sure the technology outpaces our growth. Roblox teams are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership over the things they build. If you have a desire to grow and learn, you will fit right in with our highly-skilled and ever-expanding engineering team. You Are: Battle ready: You have experience defining architecture for AI

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. Why Safety AI Systems? As Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems at Roblox, you'll lead technical efforts and manage a team of experienced engineers to develop innovative AI solutions for multimodal content safety. You’ll oversee machine learning systems, constructing multimodal model architectures, improving data quality, training pipelines, and model performance to address challenges like real-time multi-verse content understanding and advanced moderation with large vision language models, spanning avatars, images, videos, audios, text, code / data models, and their composites. In close collaboration with product, policy, and Trust & Safety teams, you'll design large-scale systems to detect and mitigate abusive behavior before it harms the community. You'll own critical services at massive scale, balancing user freedom with platform civility to protect and empower our users. Your leadership will help ensure Roblox remains a safe, inclusive space for self-expression and shared experiences. You Will Own the vision, technical direction, and execution of machine learning solutions for the Multimodal Safety AI system, ensuring these systems effectively detect and prevent ha

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. Team Creator Services Machine Intelligence Team : The Machine Intelligence team is building an NPC system that can (1) play any Roblox game and (2) perform real-time inference efficiently enough to support deployment to all Roblox players. ML Platform Team : The Foundation AI Group is on a mission to establish Roblox as the standard for 3D foundational models (3DFMs), democratizing creation by making it simple for anyone to generate high-quality, immersive 3D experiences using AI. The AI Platform team is a foundational part of this vision, supporting hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences daily across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and more. We are seeking exceptional PhD new graduates to drive innovation across three critical areas: AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems. What You Will Do As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be a key contributor to building the cutting-edge systems that power AI at Roblox. Creator Services Machine Intelligence Team Develop Scale Data Pipelines: Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines to collect complex 3D game states and real-time player actions across the platform. Train Novel Architectures: Solve the feature e

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. Team Creator Services Machine Intelligence Team : The Machine Intelligence team is building an NPC system that can (1) play any Roblox game and (2) perform real-time inference efficiently enough to support deployment to all Roblox players. ML Platform Team : The Foundation AI Group is on a mission to establish Roblox as the standard for 3D foundational models (3DFMs), democratizing creation by making it simple for anyone to generate high-quality, immersive 3D experiences using AI. The AI Platform team is a foundational part of this vision, supporting hundreds of ML use cases and billions of inferences daily across Discovery, Safety, Engine, and more. We are seeking exceptional PhD new graduates to drive innovation across three critical areas: AI Platform, Distributed Inference Systems. What You Will Do As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be a key contributor to building the cutting-edge systems that power AI at Roblox. Creator Services Machine Intelligence Team Develop Scale Data Pipelines: Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines to collect complex 3D game states and real-time player actions across the platform. Train Novel Architectures: Solve the feature e

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be the first dedicated QA hire for the Safety Engineering Group, which is responsible for building the infrastructure and policies that make Roblox the safest online community in the world. You will report to the QA Engineering Manager for Universal Apps and collaborate across the Safety organization to own end-to-end test strategies for high-stakes, 24/7 incident response systems and parent-facing safety features. This role is a unique opportunity to shape the quality culture of a company-level mandate from the ground up. You will: Partner with Engineering and Product to define and maintain comprehensive, risk-based test coverage for Safety features and systems. Own the end-to-end test strategy for Safety initiatives, including functional, regression, integration, and edge-case validation. Leverage and expand internal automation frameworks to automate critical user flows and drive API-first validation strategies. Identify high-impact automation opportunities and incorporate industry best practices to design robust, abuse-resistant test scenarios. Develop, track, and report on quality metrics (e.g., defect trends, coverage gaps) to proactively surface relea

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. As a Senior Security Software Engineer on the IAM team at Roblox, you'll build the next generation of identity and access management — defining how both humans and AI agents get identity, authenticate, and receive access to Roblox's production infrastructure. As AI agents become first-class actors in our systems, you'll design the tooling and policy that governs what they can do, how they prove who they are, and how we keep that access safe at scale. You'll also continue to evolve our workload authentication, privileged access management, and secure "golden path" for developers. Your work will directly shape the security posture of our entire production environment and set the standard for agentic IAM across the industry. You will: Design Identity and Access for AI Agents: You will define how AI agents get credentials, receive scoped permissions, and have their sessions managed throughout their lifecycle — pioneering the patterns for agentic identity in production. Engineer Hybrid Production IAM at Scale: You will design and implement scalable IAM solutions for Roblox's hybrid production environment, spanning on-premises and cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure and efficient access for hum

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. The Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve Roblox performance across our supported platforms. Our platform is used by over 150M people daily. You will work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Xbox, Playstation and TV. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints, ranging from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, to ensure a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms. You will: Own the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client across all platforms directly moving the needle on our key metrics: TTI, app size, battery usage and more. Build the benchmarking, profiling, and telemetry systems required to catch regressions early and continue scaling our application even further. Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to evaluate technical tradeoffs, align on company-wide priorities, and

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Engine DataModel team, you will own and innovate on the foundational components that form the backbone of the Roblox platform. In the Roblox Engine, the DataModel is a tree-like structure that is analogous to a scenegraph in other 3D engines. This role will report to the engineering manager and will be based out of our HQ in San Mateo, CA in a hybrid model 3 days a week (Tuesdays to Thursdays). Our team owns: The core structures and systems are used to build the DataModel and interact with it. The C++ reflection bindings that form the Engine’s Luau API surface and let creators interact with the DataModel. We’ve built custom codegen tooling to generate the C++ for these reflection bindings and other related structures. DataModel serialization … and much more! You will: Develop engine code that performs well for all user-created games on the Roblox platform. Build the core systems and data structures used in the Roblox engine, working with other teams to find universal solutions. Take ownership of projects throughout their full lifecycles. Execute code that performs well on all the devices Roblox supports—from desktop clients to mobile phone clients to con

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Avatar Personalization team, you will use the Roblox game engine to build features that push the boundaries of our avatar technology, and build creative systems that make Roblox avatars simple and delightful to use. You will tackle the biggest projects, provide technical leadership, and coordinate with teams across Roblox to build systems used by tens of millions of monthly players and developers. You are passionate about building outstanding systems and APIs in the Roblox game engine, enhancing avatar features, and enriching customization systems for Roblox players and developers. You'll work with Avatar technologies such as animation, clothing, hair, and shading. Experience in game or film development is especially translatable into this team and role. You Will: Implement groundbreaking features in Roblox game engine to build the best avatar system in the world Build APIs for Roblox developers enabling in-experience creation of Roblox Avatars from scratch Enhance avatar fidelity and uniqueness on Roblox Use the Roblox game engine to build excellent vertical applications for multiple platforms (mobile, tablet, PC, and console) Refactor and improve our e

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. The Roblox Vision 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 platform that empowers our community to bring any experience imaginable to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility. Why Join Our Rendering Team? Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology. The rendering team at Roblox is at the heart of how millions of creators and players experience our platform. We are a group that is highly passionate about pushing the boundaries of visuals, scalability and performance. We develop our in-house engine and are in control of our entire technology stack, from the rendering pipeline, the lighting techniques, the material system, the voxel terrain to the VFX system and the server infrastructure. Roblox continues to tackle an unprecedented scalabil

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. As a Senior Privacy Engineer on the Security and Privacy GRC team, you will shepherd and grow Roblox's Privacy Review Program, the technical and process backbone that ensures privacy is engineered into every product before it ships. You will join the Security and Privacy GRC team, reporting to the Sr Engineering Manager for Privacy Governance and Operations. This is a hands-on privacy engineering role: you'll set standards for privacy-enhancing technologies, act as the go-to SME for policy-as-code, and partner closely with Product teams, Trust & Safety, Legal, and Regulatory Compliance as part of Roblox's broader cross-functional privacy program. You will: Shepherd and evolve the Privacy Review Program, designing consistent intake workflows, evaluation criteria, and documentation to systematically assess privacy risk across new products, features, and infrastructure changes. Develop standards and guidelines that enable product teams to adopt privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) such as differential privacy, k-anonymity, data minimization, and secure computation, with clear guidance on trade-offs and implementation patterns. Act as the Privacy SME for policy-as-code, translating privacy

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 experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there. 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. The Consumer App Foundation team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to improve Roblox performance across our supported platforms. Our platform is used by over 150M people daily. You will work primarily in cross-platform C++ Roblox game engine code, partnering with teams across the company to identify bottlenecks, ship measurable improvements, and prevent regressions over time. Our team is responsible for the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Xbox, Playstation and TV. We tackle the platform’s most difficult technical constraints, ranging from speed and responsiveness to efficiency and stability, to ensure a high-performance experience across all of our devices and platforms. You will: Own the end-to-end performance of the Roblox client across all platforms directly moving the needle on our key metrics: TTI, app size, battery usage and more. Build the benchmarking, profiling, and telemetry systems required to catch regressions early and continue scaling our application even further. Collaborate closely with stakeholders across Engineering, Product, and Design to evaluate technical tradeoffs, align on company-wide priorities, and