Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio
About the role
Roblox Studio is the creation engine behind millions of immersive 3D games built by creators around the world. We are entering a major platform transition, evolving Studio into an AI-Native IDE where intelligent systems plan, act, validate, and iterate alongside creators to amplify their output. We are seeking a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of the agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation)
- Set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code
- Optimize these systems for latency, throughput, and cost (caching, routing, distillation, quantization)
- Bring reusable patterns and best practices to teams across Studio, raising the applied-AI fluency of Studio engineering
Requirements
- 12+ years of engineering experience, including ownership of large-scale, long-lived platforms
- Deep, hands-on experience building LLM-powered and agentic systems in production, beyond chat-based interfaces
- Strong systems and software engineering skills, with the ability to design the architecture and write the code
- A track record of defining evaluation frameworks for AI product quality, combining automated metrics with human review, and optimizing inference for latency, throughput, and cost
- Strong background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms, with a proven ability to set technical direction and raise quality across multiple teams as an individual contributor
Qualifications
- Background in coding models or code-generation systems, and/or research experience in reinforcement learning (RLHF, RLAIF, preference modeling)
- Product-minded, with a real understanding of developer needs, creator workflows, and how AI systems land in the user experience
- Adaptable and curious, with good judgment about when to build, when to reuse, and when to push a need back to a model team
- Able to operate at the deepest technical levels and still communicate direction clearly to partners
Skills
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Benefits
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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.
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.
Anual 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).