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Senior Director of Engineering, Generative AI

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

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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 Greylock, a16z and Index.

About the role

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.

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing organizations that span both AI research scientists and production engineers, including hiring, developing talent, and making difficult personnel decisions
  • Experience operating cross-functionally in complex technical organizations, with the ability to influence and align across research, product engineering, and platform teams without relying on hierarchy
  • Genuine interest in the creation problem. You find the specific challenge of AI-assisted 3D world creation and domain-specific code generation compelling, not just as a vehicle for building AI systems
  • A builder and a shipper who cares about getting things into production and measuring whether they actually work, not just publishing promising results
  • Decisive under ambiguity. You make principled tradeoffs between rigor and velocity, know when good enough is good enough, and can articulate your reasoning clearly
  • Direct and honest. You give clear feedback, surface problems early, and create an environment where your team can do the same
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.

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. This leader will own the full applied AI stack: model strategy and routing,...

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