Senior Rendering Engineer Manager

The Roblox Vision

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

Why Join Our Rendering Team?

Roblox is seeking an experienced and passionate senior engineering manager to lead a team of talented engineers building cutting edge rendering technology.

What You Will Lead

• Lead and mentor a world-class team of rendering engineers focused on one of the following pillars:
• The core rendering pipeline, culling and dispatching systems, graphics APIs backends (Vulkan, Metal, Direct3D, agc, OpenGL) and related systems.
• The Lighting, shading, materials, global illumination, and post-processing systems.

What You Will Do

• Act as a hands-on technical leader, providing guidance on architectural decisions and implementation, from low-level details to high level choice of algorithms, and ensuring the stability and efficiency of our technology stack.
• Partner with your team and other engineering leaders to define and execute the vision for the core rendering technology, anticipating future needs and trends, and ensuring our plans are aligned with the company vision.
• Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and open communication, where all ideas are valued and explored, and invest in the development of our engineers.
• Help build and expand our rendering organization by attracting, interviewing, and retaining top-tier engineering talent.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of rendering or graphics engineering experience, with a deep understanding of one or both of the following:
• Low-level rendering pipelines, GPU architectures (preferably including mobile), and graphic APIs (e.g., Vulkan, Metal, DirectX)
• Modern lighting techniques (e.g., PBR, shadowing, global illumination), material systems, and shading languages.
• 5+ years of experience in a technical leadership or engineering management role, with a proven track record of building, mentoring, and leading high-performing engineering teams.
• Strong C++ programming skills and a robust problem-solving background, with the ability to provide technical guidance, conduct deep-dive investigations, and contribute to design discussions.
• Experience designing, building, and shipping advanced graphical features and/or performance critical systems for game engines or real-time 3D applications.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences and collaborate effectively across diverse teams.
• A genuine enthusiasm for tackling the unique rendering challenges that Roblox faces.

Location

Roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: 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. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits as described on this page.

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