# Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning - Discovery at Roblox

- Company: Roblox
- What the company does: Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds. Backed by First Round.
- Company website: https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-ceo-of-roblox-on-scaling-community-sourced-innovation
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Mateo, CA, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/8104808?gh_jid=8104808
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/roblox-distinguished-engineer-machine-learning-discovery/

## About the role

A career at Roblox means you’ll be working to shape the future of human interaction, solving unique technical challenges at scale, and helping to create safer, more civil shared experiences for everyone.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years of experience and a consistent record of delivering and improving large-scale search and recommendation systems
- Experience crafting and building large scale machine learning models with billions of parameters and launching them into production
- The capability of breaking down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages
- Initiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. You are empathetic and find common understanding
- Deep technical expertise, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers
- A generalist approach and you have mastered several languages and technologies already, you can easily adapt to any situation

Tags: Software Engineering