Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning - Economy
Roblox, San Mateo, CA
The role
We’re looking for a Distinguished Engineer/Technical Director to lead the strategy and technical direction for ML systems, with a focus on large-scale recommendations, infrastructure, and emerging Generative AI applications. You’ll help build the systems that support retrieval, ranking, generative modeling, and LLM-powered personalization, all at massive scale. This role requires deep systems thinking, hands-on ML expertise, and a vision for how traditional ML and GenAI come together to power the future of the Roblox economy.
What you will do
- Set the technical direction and implementation for the machine learning solutions that power core economy experiences: personalization, ranking, generative modeling, and more.
- Author specs for new features and improvements. You would be responsible for setting the AI strategy, pushing the frontier of recommendation technology, and driving business outcomes across candidate generation, ranking, objective functions, and value delivery for both users and developers.