Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

📋 Description

• Design and build agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE.
• Define Studio's use of coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context.
• Own quality and evaluation strategy with eval pipelines, including human-in-the-loop.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput, and cost (caching, routing, distillation, quantization).
• Share reusable patterns and best practices across Studio to raise AI fluency.

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of engineering experience, with ownership of large-scale platforms.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems in production.
• Strong systems engineering skills; design architectures and write code.
• Defined AI evaluation frameworks using metrics and human review; optimize latency and cost.
• Background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms; drive technical direction as an IC.
• Preferred: coding models or code-generation; RLHF/RLAIF or related model-training experience.

🎁 Benefits

• Onsite in San Mateo, CA; Tue–Thu on-site with optional Mon/Fri.
• Equity compensation for all full-time employees.
• Equal employment opportunities and accommodations during recruiting.
• Opportunity to work on scalable AI systems used by millions of creators.
• Roblox is an equal opportunity employer; accommodations provided.