Roblox currently has 53 active job listings related to artificial intelligence. The majority of these roles, 57%, are focused on agents, with serving infrastructure and data also representing significant areas of hiring. Engineering roles are the most frequent, accounting for nearly half of the open positions. The company is actively seeking expertise in areas such as model serving, inference infrastructure, and agent orchestration.
Currently tracking 37 active AI roles, with 65 new openings in the last 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $153k–$458k (avg $293k).
Roblox currently has 54 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career (2), Design Engineer, Director of Engineering, Economy ML, Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration, Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy. Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Roblox's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (54%), serving infrastructure (19%), data (11%). 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 (54 roles).
Job postings at Roblox most frequently mention: Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, Distributed Systems, System Design.
In the past 30 days, Roblox has posted 13 new AI-related roles. That is a -38% change versus the prior 30 days (21 → 13).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| 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 content types (avatars, images, videos, audios, text, code/data). The goal is to detect and mitigate abusive behavior at scale, balancing user freedom with platform civility. | AgentPost-train | 9 |
| Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio, acting as an AI-Native IDE. This hands-on role involves setting technical direction, designing architecture, and writing code for agentic AI systems, including planning, execution, validation, and evaluation, while optimizing for latency, throughput, and cost. |
| AgentEval Gate |
| 9 |
| [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career Roblox is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to work on their Embodied AI/NPCs and ML Platform teams. The role involves developing scale data pipelines, training novel deep learning architectures for NPCs, and optimizing real-time inference for autonomous NPCs. Additionally, the role will pioneer next-generation AI tooling, build core platform components (Serving Layer, Model Registry, Pipeline Orchestrator), and design developer experiences for ML@Roblox. The position also includes architecting and implementing scalable distributed inference systems for LLMs and large recommender models, optimizing inference engines for massive scale and low latency, and conducting low-level performance analysis on GPU architectures. The ideal candidate will have a PhD, experience with end-to-end ML pipelines, real-world agentic applications, and scaling high-performance architectures. | AgentServe | 9 |
| [2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career Roblox is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to work on their Embodied AI/NPCs and ML Platform teams. The role involves developing scale data pipelines, training novel deep learning architectures for NPCs, and optimizing real-time inference for autonomous NPCs. Additionally, the role will pioneer next-generation AI tooling, build core platform components (Serving Layer, Model Registry, Pipeline Orchestrator), and design developer experiences for ML@Roblox. The position also includes architecting and implementing scalable distributed inference systems for LLMs and large recommender models, optimizing inference engines for massive scale and low latency, and conducting low-level performance analysis on GPU architectures. The ideal candidate will have a PhD, experience with end-to-end ML pipelines, real-world agentic applications, and scaling high-performance architectures. | AgentServe | 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 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, AI Roblox Studio Senior Engineering Manager to lead the Studio Assistant team, driving the strategy and execution of an agentic AI system for Roblox creators. The role involves owning the end-to-end system from user experience to backend infrastructure, including model orchestration, tool execution, and evaluation pipelines, with a focus on scaling to millions of users. | Agent | 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 |
| [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 |
| Software Engineer, Communications Software Engineer, Communications Safety at Roblox, focusing on building and scaling chat and communication systems that incorporate ML models and LLMs for real-time detection of harmful content and policy compliance. The role involves engineering infrastructure, working with ML model tuning and prompt engineering, designing moderation systems, and collaborating with various teams to ensure safety in communication products. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist, Creator Platform Senior Data Scientist on the Creator Platform team at Roblox, focusing on building and maintaining ML systems for creator reputation, anti-abuse, and rewards. The role involves driving creator data foundations, enabling agentic and AI-powered analytics, and defining reporting metrics. Requires strong ML, experimentation, causal inference, and data foundation expertise, with a focus on trust & safety and AI for analytics. | AgentData | 7 |
| Director, Engineering — Engineering Acceleration Director of Engineering to reimagine the engineering toolchain to be agentic-native, creating a world where AI agents are first-class participants in software development. This role will design platforms, guardrails, and feedback loops for AI agents to drive migrations, validation, and operational work, focusing on AI-driven quality, automated testing, and reducing operational toil. Requires experience leading engineering teams and strong technical depth in backend/distributed systems, with familiarity in the AI engineering stack. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Engineering Manager, Safety Platform Lead engineering pods within the Safety Platform organization, driving the technical vision and execution for foundational systems that power every safety workflow at Roblox. Own the core safety platform end-to-end, including the Safety agentic platform—AI-powered systems that automate and augment safety workflows across detection, enforcement, and review pipelines. This role requires a leader with a strong platform mindset who can balance technical rigor with broad organizational impact. | Agent | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer, Safety Foundation Principal Software Engineer to lead the AI-first transformation of Roblox's safety platform, architecting agentic and ML-integrated workflows, and building a developer experience layer for safety capabilities. The role involves hands-on technical leadership, setting technical direction, and ensuring scalability and reliability for 10x traffic growth. | AgentServe | 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 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 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 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 |