Roblox
Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning - Economy
$397K–$456K
San Mateo, CA, United States · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2025
- Experience
- 10+ years.
- Education
- BS in Computer Science or a related discipline; MS/PhD are a definite plus.
- Visa sponsorship
- For US-based roles, the company may not be able to employ candidates whose work authorization relates to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.
About the job
Leads the technical strategy and development of large-scale machine learning systems for Roblox’s virtual economy, including recommendations, personalization, ranking, and generative AI.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and implement ML solutions for core economy experiences; author specifications and guide AI strategy.
- Build and evolve infrastructure for training, serving, and evaluating traditional ML and generative AI models.
- Lead through technical direction, collaborating across engineering, data, infrastructure, and product teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience delivering and improving large-scale search and recommendation systems.
- Experience building and productionizing large-scale ML models with billions of parameters, with substantial contributions to ML infrastructure and production systems.
- BS in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Nice to have
- MS/PhD.
Pay
$397,460 — $455,720 USD annual base salary
Tools
ML systems, embedding-based retrieval, transformers, LLM-based workflows, GPU training
AI focus
Set AI strategy and develop recommendation, personalization, ranking, generative modeling, and LLM-powered workflows; build infrastructure for traditional ML and Generative AI training, serving, and evaluation.
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