Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer, Ads & Discovery

Roblox Roblox · Consumer · San Mateo, CA · Software Engineering

Roblox is seeking a Principal Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to build and own scalable, reliable, and high-performance infrastructure for ML systems, focusing on ads and discovery. The role involves leading strategic planning, architecture, and best practices for ML infrastructure including training, data pipelines, feature engineering, and model inference, operating at a massive scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead strategic planning and roadmap execution of scalable production-ready ML systems including model training, data pipelines, feature engineering and model inference.
  2. Own the architecture, establish engineering best practices of scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of ML infrastructure (e.g., training, serving, feature).
  3. Work closely with data scientists, ML engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to design, implement, and operate robust ML platforms that accelerate model development and deployment.
  4. Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying large-scale machine learning systems in production environments.
  • 3+ years of experience tech leading ML infrastructure engineers
  • Strong communication skills
  • Collaborative approach to problem solving

What the JD emphasized

  • large-scale machine learning systems in production environments
  • tech leading ML infrastructure engineers

Other signals

  • building large scale ads machine learning infrastructure
  • hundreds of billions of engagements
  • redefine how we deliver performance ads to hundreds of millions of users