Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AI
RobloxUser-Generated Content company
San Mateo, United States$525,510 - $573,690 USDDirector
Altimeter Capital
Dragoneer Investment Group
Andreessen Horowitz
Tencent
First Round Capital
Warner Music Group
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead the Applied AI organization for Roblox Build, focusing on generative AI for creation systems.
- •Roblox Build is our generative creation product, the platform where creators design, build, and publish 3D experiences.
- •We are looking for a Senior Director of Generative AI to lead the Applied AI organization inside Build, responsible for turning state-of-the-art foundation models into high-quality, reliable creation systems at Roblox scale.
- •Key Responsibilities Own model strategy and routing for Build.
- •Lead model adaptation across the Applied AI org.
- •Drive CodeGen capabilities forward by building AI systems that understand creator intent.
- •Build LayoutGen intelligence by developing the AI capability that turns a creator's intent into coherent 3D scenes.
- •Own evaluation as a core technical discipline.
- •Requirements 10+ years of experience in machine learning and AI, with 5+ years in senior technical leadership roles overseeing applied AI or ML engineering organizations that have shipped generative AI systems into production at scale.
- •Deep technical grounding across multiple areas of applied AI, including LLM post-training, model routing and adaptation, agentic systems, code generation, or evaluation science.
- •Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing organizations that span both AI research scientists and production engineers.
- •Strong evaluation fluency, with a track record of building eval frameworks that predict production outcomes.
- •Experience operating cross-functionally in complex technical organizations.
Required skills
LLMsEngineering ManagementPythonOpenAI APILangChainHugging FaceTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnMLflowVertex AI
Nice-to-have skills
Anthropic APIGemini APIKubeflowSageMaker
Domain expertise
gamingdeveloper-toolsai
Benefits & perks
equity compensation, benefits
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptLLMsOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging FaceTensorFlowPyTorchscikit-learnKerasMLflowKubeflowSageMakerVertex AIGitLinuxJiraConfluenceREST API