Roblox
Consumer · Gaming platform
- HQ
- San Mateo, US
- Founded
- 2004
- Size
- 2,500+
- Funding
- Public (RBLX)
- Website
- roblox.com
- Blog
- corp.roblox.com
Products
Roblox currently has 62 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The company's hiring is heavily concentrated in roles focused on agents, which account for 45% of its AI positions. Engineering is the primary function for these roles, with the vast majority of hiring occurring in the United States. Roblox is actively seeking expertise in areas such as model serving, agent orchestration, and inference infrastructure.
Currently tracking 44 active AI roles, down 18% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $162k–$458k (avg $290k).
Consumer · Gaming platform
Roblox currently has 50 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Design Engineer, Director of Engineering - AI for Roblox Studio, Director of Engineering, Economy ML, Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy, Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer - Safety. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Roblox's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (56%), serving infrastructure (14%), application (10%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Roblox is hiring AI talent in: United States (49 roles), India (1 role).
Job postings at Roblox most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, agent orchestration, recommender systems, multimodal.
In the past 30 days, Roblox has posted 13 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer - Safety Distinguished Machine Learning Engineer/Technical Director in the Safety organization at Roblox, driving technical vision and execution for ML initiatives focused on user safety and civility. The role involves owning technical direction, leading engineers, building large-scale ML models, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to define the ML roadmap for Trust and Safety. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems at Roblox, leading a team to develop innovative AI solutions for multimodal content safety. The role involves overseeing machine learning systems, constructing multimodal model architectures, improving data quality, training pipelines, and model performance for real-time content understanding and moderation using large vision language models across various data types (avatars, images, videos, audios, text, code/data). The goal is to detect and mitigate abusive behavior at scale to ensure a safe and inclusive platform. | ShipPost-train | 9 |
| Principal/Senior Machine Learning Scientist - Search and Discovery Roblox is seeking experienced machine learning researchers to innovate on LLMs, VLMs, and other large models for user understanding, content understanding, recommendation, and agentic search. The role involves designing and implementing ML solutions for agentic search and discovery systems, large-scale recommendation models, and LLMs/VLMs for visual and natural language understanding. The position requires a practical approach to integrate research into products and experience with transformer-based model training, inference, and product integration. | AgentServe | 9 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Embodied AI and Smart NPCs Principal ML Engineer focused on Embodied AI and Behavioral Agents for Roblox's 3D gaming platform. The role involves research and development of agents with human-like movement and strategic reasoning, leveraging Imitation Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, Robotics, and Agentic Reasoning. The goal is to create generalizable agents that can perceive 3D environments, understand game rules, plan long-term strategies, and execute complex physics-based actions, impacting millions of users in real-time gaming environments. | AgentData | 9 |
| Director of Engineering - AI for Roblox Studio Director of Engineering for Studio Assistant at Roblox, focusing on evolving Roblox Studio into an AI-Native IDE by building and scaling agentic AI systems. The role involves owning technical direction, leading engineering teams, and driving alignment across various departments to deliver production-grade AI-powered creation tools. | Agent | 9 |
| [2026] Applied Scientist - PhD Intern Roblox is seeking a PhD Intern to conduct cutting-edge research in AI, machine learning, and 3D technologies. The intern will drive projects from ideation to experimentation, production, or publication, focusing on areas like generative modeling, multimodal technologies, agentic AI, foundational models, and NLP. The role involves translating research into production-ready features and enhancing user experience, safety, and creativity on the Roblox platform. | Post-trainAgent | 9 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Behavior Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building proactive detection and behavioral intelligence systems to identify users at risk of violating policies before escalation. The role involves owning the ML foundation from scratch, including feature stores, training pipelines, and evaluation infrastructure, and shipping end-to-end ML solutions integrated with the main stack. This is a consumer-focused role building agentic systems for risk assessment and intervention. | AgentData | 8 |
| Director of Engineering, Economy ML Director of Engineering, Economy ML at Roblox. This role leads and scales a fast-growing ML organization focused on recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, search, content intelligence, and Generative AI applications within the Roblox Economy. The position involves defining strategy, building and scaling the team, partnering across departments, leading investments in next-generation ML systems, and establishing scalable ML development practices. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, GenAI Data Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and scaling the data infrastructure for generative AI models (VideoGen, 3DGen) at Roblox. This role involves high-scale data orchestration, synthetic data generation, bridging research to production, building evaluation frameworks, and optimizing inference APIs. The primary focus is on the data pipelines and infrastructure (L0) that feed foundation models, with a secondary focus on the evaluation frameworks (L5) for datasets and models. | DataEval Gate | 8 |
| Principal Model Optimization Engineer Roblox is seeking a Principal Model Optimization Engineer to optimize machine learning models for performance on GPU architectures, focusing on both training and inference workflows. This role involves low-level performance profiling, contributing to best practices and tooling, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to integrate optimized models into production. The ideal candidate has significant experience debugging GPUs and is proficient in advanced tools like CUDA, Triton, and TensorRT, with expertise in LLM optimization techniques such as speculative decoding and quantization. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Senior Data Scientist - Machine Intelligence (Creator Services) Senior Data Scientist on the Creator Services team at Roblox, focusing on Machine Intelligence. This role involves bridging engineering infrastructure and ML applications, transforming unstructured data (text, images, video) into actionable insights and user-facing products. The position is a "zero-to-one" environment, requiring the creation of new data formats and analytical frameworks to drive creator success and platform sustainability through ML. Responsibilities include leading ML-driven transformation, modeling unstructured data, owning data workflows end-to-end, designing causal frameworks for experiments, and translating technical wins into business value. | Post-trainAgent | 8 |
| [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Account Identity - PhD Early Career Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building facial age estimation and real-time liveness checks for account identity and security. The role involves developing deepfake detection and 3D facial embeddings to combat fraud and identity spoofing, requiring expertise in computer vision and large-scale ML systems. | AgentData | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Economy Senior Machine Learning Engineer on the Economy ML team at Roblox, responsible for building and iterating on deep learning models for ranking, recommendation, pricing, and content understanding across the platform's economic surfaces. This role involves owning the full ML lifecycle, from data exploration to production deployment, and designing experiments to optimize key business metrics. The engineer will also contribute to the team's technical direction and mentor other engineers. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Alt Defense Roblox is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to lead the technical vision for their Alternate Account Detection platform. This role involves architecting and building high-scale ML systems, specifically using Graph Neural Networks and advanced clustering techniques, to detect and prevent bad actors from rejoining the platform in near real-time. The engineer will also drive the ML roadmap, mentor other engineers, and focus on adversarial approaches to stay ahead of sophisticated actors. | Agent | 8 |
| [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Recommendation Systems - PhD Early Career Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on Recommendation Systems at Roblox. The role involves designing and implementing large-scale recommendation systems using deep learning, generative AI, and LLMs for discovery across experiences, avatars, and creator content. It bridges research and production, impacting hundreds of millions of users. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy Distinguished Engineer/Technical Director to lead ML systems strategy and technical direction, focusing on large-scale recommendations, infrastructure, and Generative AI applications for Roblox's economy. The role involves building systems for retrieval, ranking, generative modeling, and LLM-powered personalization at massive scale, requiring deep systems thinking and hands-on ML expertise. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning - Avatar, Core AI Senior ML Engineer focused on deploying and optimizing Generative AI models for on-device, low-compute environments within Roblox's platform. This role involves developing ML models, establishing deployment pipelines, and optimizing architecture for various computing devices. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Senior Software Engineer - NPC Behavior Senior Software Engineer to design and build scalable systems for NPC behavior on the Roblox platform, utilizing LLM, Imitation Learning, and Reinforcement Learning technologies. Responsibilities include full-stack development, owning product areas, and working with game engines and ML models. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Reliability Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on improving the reliability of the Roblox platform by leveraging ML for anomaly detection, root cause analysis, and predictive scaling. The role involves building ML systems that consume and reason over large-scale data streams (logs, traces, metrics) to proactively identify and resolve production issues. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Fraud Senior Software Engineer focused on developing anti-fraud and abuse solutions for Roblox's virtual marketplace. This role involves building backend services, fraud platform components, and pipelines, leveraging data-driven approaches and machine learning to detect and prevent fraud. The engineer will also contribute to the technical roadmap and risk defense strategy, bridging communication between backend engineers and data scientists/ML engineers. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Compute Platform Senior Product Manager for Roblox's Compute Platform, focusing on AI infrastructure (GPUs, accelerators) for training and inference. The role involves setting strategy and roadmap for managed Kubernetes, distributed systems, and fleet management across on-prem and cloud environments, with a strong emphasis on reliability, efficiency, and developer experience for AI workloads. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, Jobs Platform Roblox is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead their Jobs Platform, an orchestration system for microservices powering AI Inference. The role involves defining the vision for deploying, running, and scaling AI and other services, evolving the platform's technical core, improving developer experience, and architecting intelligent scaling solutions using AI-powered prediction. The ideal candidate has experience with distributed systems, Kubernetes, GPU architecture, and AI model development, with a focus on building developer-facing platforms. | ServeAgent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer, Content Suitability Senior Software Engineer on the Content Suitability team at Roblox, focusing on building and enhancing ML models for automated content review and policy enforcement. The role involves contributing to a high-throughput Content Policy Platform and productionizing ML models to detect regional policy violations at scale, ensuring content is age-appropriate and compliant with global regulations. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience Senior Software Engineer role focused on building AI-agentic-powered tooling and scalable operating systems for Trust & Safety at Roblox. The role involves architecting and leading end-to-end systems, integrating advanced AI methodologies like LLMs and agentic workflows for moderation solutions, and designing core primitives for safety applications. It emphasizes cross-functional alignment, architectural vision, and scaling complex systems in an adversarial landscape. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Engineering Manager, Observability Infrastructure Engineering Manager to lead the next generation of AI-powered observability platforms, building intelligent systems to revolutionize CI/CD, testing, and DevOps workflows. The role involves defining vision, strategy, and roadmap, leading and mentoring a team, and driving initiatives to improve developer productivity and platform reliability. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Scientist Machine Learning Scientist at Roblox focused on developing and building large-scale forecasting and user outcome modeling systems, including batch prediction infrastructure and ETL/ML pipelines. Requires experience with time series modeling and foundational time series models. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Analyst, AI Workflows & Automation This role focuses on designing, prototyping, and scaling AI-augmented workflows for Trust & Safety Operations at Roblox. The Senior Analyst will translate operational pain points into AI workflows, partner with product and engineering, and build evaluation frameworks to ensure automations are safe, reliable, and measurable. The role involves using LLM agents, existing rules engines, and human review to improve efficiency and consistency, with a strong emphasis on analytical skills and cross-functional communication. | Agent | 7 |
| Scientist / Senior Scientist, Ads Systems Roblox is seeking a Scientist/Senior Scientist for their Ads Systems team. This role focuses on designing and leading offline model evaluation, contributing to ML feature and model improvements for ads, building evaluation and simulation models, and leading experimental design and analysis. The position is crucial for innovating advertising systems and operations within a new strategic area for Roblox. | Eval GateAgent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer - Asset Safety Principal Software Engineer on the Asset Safety team at Roblox, responsible for building and scaling distributed systems that power asset moderation for billions of user-generated assets. The role involves developing innovative detection approaches, scaling ML pipelines, and delivering end-to-end safety products in a rapidly evolving, adversarial landscape. This is a highly technical leadership role focused on ensuring safety and civility across various content types like images, avatars, and 3D content. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Search and Discovery Senior Engineering Manager for Search and Discovery ML team at Roblox, leading architects of exploration for one of the world's largest immersive platforms. Responsible for core algorithms connecting over 120 million daily active users with millions of 3D experiences, items, and social connections. This role directly determines the growth, retention, and satisfaction of the Roblox community, moving beyond traditional recommendation systems into multimodal, agentic, and generative discovery. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager, AI Content & Communications Safety Senior Product Manager for AI Content & Communications Safety at Roblox. This role involves leading safety features that automate content reviews using AI across various modalities (image, text, audio, video, 3D, code). The focus is on combating malicious actors and ensuring platform safety and civility, particularly for a younger user base. The role requires experience in building and deploying large-scale, real-time AI solutions and understanding Trust & Safety dynamics in user-generated content environments. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Design Engineer Senior Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, focused on building scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling to empower designers and engineers. This role involves architecting backend services and APIs that connect design tools to AI models, developing agentic workflows for UI generation, building CI/CD pipelines for designers, and designing data architecture for design systems and AI data sources. The goal is to create internal tools, plugins, and web apps for design linting, code generation, and automated compliance, serving as a technical bridge between engineering, AI research, and product design. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior / Principal Data Scientist - Discovery Senior/Principal Data Scientist to lead ML solutions and ranking frameworks for Roblox's discovery canvases (Home, Search, Matchmaking, Notifications), focusing on long-term ecosystem health and user retention in a large-scale UGC content platform and two-sided marketplace. | Ship | 7 |
| Principal AI/ML Engineer, Reliability Principal AI/ML Engineer focused on leveraging ML to improve the reliability of the Roblox platform by detecting issues proactively and reducing incident resolution time. This involves building data pipelines, anomaly detection systems, reasoning layers for root cause analysis, and time-series models for capacity prediction. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager - Risk & Fraud Senior Engineering Manager for Roblox's Payments - Risk team, leading the vision and execution for core risk services that facilitate fiat monetary transactions. The role involves architecting and maintaining low-latency engines for real-time risk and fraud decisioning, building infrastructure for automated chargeback and dispute management using machine learning, developing systemic controls for AML and compliance, and owning data pipelines and simulation environments for risk models. This is a leadership role focused on protecting a multi-billion dollar economy and ensuring financial safety. | AgentData | 7 |
| [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Engine Optimization - PhD Early Career Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on real-time engine optimization for Roblox's platform. The role involves analyzing massive-scale telemetry, designing ML models for predictive resource allocation and content delivery, building adaptive control systems, and integrating ML solutions into the core gameplay engine. The goal is to replace heuristic logic with data-driven decision-making to improve stability, visual quality, and responsiveness across billions of global play sessions. | ServeData | 7 |
| Principal Data Scientist - Safety Roblox is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to focus on content safety and moderation. This role involves establishing and monitoring prevalence measurement methodologies, developing ground truth datasets for harmful content, conducting exploratory analysis on threat landscapes, designing and analyzing experiments for safety features, and leveraging causal inference to measure effectiveness. The scientist will collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Policy, and Compliance teams, and partner with ML and Data Engineering teams to ensure statistically sound frameworks. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in data science, scripting languages, big data tools, and a background in safety or moderation systems for content platforms. | Eval GateData | 7 |
| Technical Director - Data Science (Discovery) Roblox is seeking senior data scientists with expertise in machine learning to join their Discovery Experience team. The role focuses on improving end-to-end consumer journeys on Roblox by leveraging data science toolkits including analytics, experimentation, forecasting, and ML solutions. Responsibilities include developing ML solutions for discovery canvases, applying causal inference, and designing/implementing experiments. Experience with recommendation systems and content platforms is required. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Roblox focused on building ML solutions for ad ranking and personalized advertising experiences. The role involves designing and implementing large-scale recommendation models and driving the development of an ML-driven advertising platform from its early stages. Experience with transformer models, training, and inference is a plus. | AgentServe | 7 |