Roblox5 days ago

Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AI

RUB 43,793–47,808per month · before tax
MARKET
15,900median for this role
Data Scientist · 115 jobs with disclosed pay
5,000half of the offers: 12,796–20,50043,793
Above market · above 100% of offers
San Mateo

Responsibilities

  • 01Own model strategy and routing for Build
  • 02Design and build an intelligent model layer that selects the right model for each creation task based on quality, capability, latency, cost, and safety
  • 03Lead model adaptation across the Applied AI org, including fine-tuning, distillation, synthetic data generation, human feedback pipelines, and preference optimization
  • 04Drive CodeGen capabilities forward by building AI systems that understand creator intent, reason across multi-file Roblox experiences, execute tools, and reliably make complex changes
  • 05Build LayoutGen intelligence by developing the AI capability that turns a creator's intent into coherent 3D scenes
  • 06Own evaluation as a core technical discipline
  • 07Build the benchmarks, quality metrics, judge methodologies, experiment infrastructure, and human evaluation pipelines
  • 08Close the feedback loop between model development, evaluation, and production

Requirements

  • 0110+ years of experience in machine learning and AI
  • 025+ years in senior technical leadership roles overseeing applied AI or ML engineering organizations that have shipped generative AI systems into production at scale
  • 03Deep technical grounding across multiple areas of applied AI, including LLM post-training (RLHF, DPO, distillation), model routing and adaptation, agentic systems, code generation, or evaluation science
  • 04Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing organizations that span both AI research scientists and production engineers
  • 05Strong evaluation fluency, with a track record of building eval frameworks that predict production outcomes
  • 06Experience operating cross-functionally in complex technical organizations
  • 07Genuine interest in the creation problem

What we offer

  • 01Roles that are based in an office are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday
  • 02All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits