Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

Roblox, San Mateo, CA

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. This is a hands-on individual-contributor role operating at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, where you will set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code.

What you will do

Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) so they are production-grade and reliable.
Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across the Assistant and the broader creator workflow.

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Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

Roblox, San Mateo, CA

The role

What you will do

Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) so they are production-grade and reliable.
Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across the Assistant and the broader creator workflow.

What you need

You have

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.
Preferred Qualifications: Background in coding models or code-generation systems, and/or research experience in reinforcement learning (RLHF, RLAIF, preference modeling) or related model-training techniques.

You are

An innovative technical leader who wants to build the AI systems that power the creativity of millions.
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.

For 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.

Annual Salary Range

$399,420—$457,970 USD

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

For US based roles only, please note the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

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Technical Director - AI Roblox Studio

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