Senior Software Engineer, UGC Validation

About the role

The Avatar Heads and Bodies team within the Roblox Avatar Team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their User-Generated Content (UGC) Validation initiatives. This role focuses on scaling and evolving automated systems to validate 3D assets uploaded directly to the Roblox marketplace.

Responsibilities

• Scale and extend automated validation systems to analyze 3D geometry, avatar schema compliance, rigging structures, and asset metadata.
• Develop and refine quantitative, programmatic metrics to evaluate incoming UGC assets against platform quality standards and security rules before they reach hundreds of millions of users.
• Serve as a practical engineering resource for geometric processing, collaborating closely with machine learning teams to enhance asset quality pipelines.
• Work across the avatar stack, collaborating with engineers, product owners, and artists to translate complex marketplace policy requirements into clean, scalable code updates.
• Optimize sophisticated data and validation pipelines capable of handling large-scale 3D assets like meshes and textures with high runtime efficiency.

Requirements

• A BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field, or relevant work experience.
• Exceptional spatial reasoning and a deep mastery of 3D math, specifically linear algebra tailored for game engines and 3D environments.
• Strong experience manipulating and analyzing 3D data, including meshes, vertices, and topology.
• Solid understanding of avatar schema compliance, rigging, skinning weights, and animation principles.
• Strong programming skills in c++, Luau, Python (or similar production languages) with a proven track record in system optimization, data pipelining, and complex software design.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with runtime game engines.
• Foundational knowledge of rendering pipelines.

Skills

• Proven problem-solving skills.
• Collaborative teamwork abilities.
• Mission-driven passion for creating a safe, high-quality, and civil marketplace ecosystem for a global community.

Benefits

Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Pay

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.

Annual Salary Range $196,750—$243,290 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).