Startups · AI

Principal Software Engineer, GenAI Platform

Roblox · San Mateo, CA, United States · On-site

← All jobs
About Roblox

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.

About the role

Foundation AI builds the platforms, services, and infrastructure that enable machine learning and generative AI across Roblox. As a Principal Engineer on this team, you'll set technical strategy and direction across areas such as model training and inference, LLM services, agent infrastructure, data systems, experimentation, evaluation, and developer tooling. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • An undergraduate/graduate degree in computer science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • 8+ years of experience building and operating large-scale production software, distributed systems, cloud services, or related infrastructure
  • A sustained track record of designing and owning foundational systems or platforms with organization- or company-wide impact
  • Deep expertise in one or more of machine learning, generative AI, distributed systems, data infrastructure, or developer platforms, with the breadth to reason across all of them
  • Expert proficiency in one or more of Go, Python, or Rust, and the judgment to choose the right tools for durable systems
  • A history of setting technical direction across multiple teams and driving large, cross-organizational efforts to completion
More about this role

Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences– all created by our global community of developers and creators.

At Roblox, we’re building the tools and platform that empower our community to bring any experience that they can imagine to life. Our vision is to reimagine the way people come together, from anywhere in the world, and on any device. We’re on a mission to connect a billion people with optimism and civility, and looking for amazing talent to help us get there.

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.

Foundation AI builds the platforms, services, and infrastructure that enable machine learning and generative AI across Roblox. As a Principal Engineer on this team, you'll set technical strategy and direction across areas such as model training and inference, LLM services, agent infrastructure, data systems, experimentation, evaluation, and developer tooling. You'll be accountable for the architecture and long-term...

Read the full posting on Roblox's site ↗

Software Engineering

Build your edge while you search

Free tools for founders and investors, plus VC Unfiltered, our take on startups, venture and the people who build them.