Director of Engineering, Economy ML

About the role

The Director of Engineering, Economy ML at Roblox leads and scales the Economy ML organization, which includes recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, search, content intelligence, and Generative AI applications. This leader defines the strategy, organization, and execution model for a fast-growing ML organization at Roblox.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the long-term strategy for Economy ML across core modeling, recommendations, search, pricing, content intelligence, and ML systems.
• Build and scale a high-performing ML engineering organization, including managers and senior ICs.
• Partner across teams to help advance shared AI technologies, infrastructure, and modeling capabilities that power experiences throughout Roblox.
• Lead investments in next-generation ML systems, including large-scale recommendation models, foundation models, semantic retrieval, and Generative AI workflows.
• Establish scalable ML development practices across experimentation, feature engineering, model serving, training infrastructure, and evaluation.
• Drive adoption of modern ML architectures including transformers, multi-task learning, retrieval systems, and multi-modal modeling.
• Partner with senior leadership to align technical investments with long-term business strategy and company priorities.
• Mentor engineering leaders and cultivate a strong technical and execution culture across the organization.
• Balance innovation and execution across both near-term product impact and long-term platform investments.

Requirements

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience managing engineering organizations.
• Experience leading teams focused on machine learning, recommendation systems, search, ranking, or large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong technical depth in ML systems, infrastructure, and modern machine learning architectures.
• Experience with recommendation systems, marketplace/e-commerce ML, search, or ads systems.
• Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, multi-modal models, or foundation model architectures.
• Experience operating at large scale, including high-throughput inference systems, distributed training, or real-time personalization platforms.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
• Strong product and business intuition with a track record of delivering measurable impact.
• Experience hiring, developing, and retaining strong engineering talent and leaders.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications or advanced degrees preferred.

Skills

• Strong programming skills in Python, R, or equivalent languages.
• Experience with deep learning frameworks like TensorFlow, PyTorch, or similar.
• Knowledge of recommender systems, search engines, and e-commerce platforms.
• Understanding of Generative AI, LLMs, multi-modal models, and foundation model architectures.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems and cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Benefits

Roblox offers competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment. The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Pay

Annual Salary Range: $399,420—$457,970 USD

Schedule

Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).