13 days ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design platform capabilities adopted by multiple ML teams and use cases.
- Build GPU and compute management systems covering quotas, priority tiers, preemption, multi-cluster scheduling, and capacity planning.
- Define, instrument, and improve metrics such as training startup time, job success rate, GPU utilization, and training or inference cost.
- Investigate slow or failing jobs across pipelines, schedulers, GPU profiles, and hardware errors, and implement durable fixes.
- Collaborate with ML engineers and data scientists to improve platform usability and developer workflows.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Data Platform, and Security on storage, networking, data access, and compliance foundations.
- Lead design reviews and technical proposals, contribute code, and mentor senior engineers.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience building performant systems.
- Track record of building ML infrastructure end to end, such as training pipelines, workflow orchestration, data or feature pipelines, experiment tracking, model registries, or model serving.
- Experience designing widely adopted SDKs, APIs, or developer tools.
- Hands-on experience running GPU workloads at scale on Kubernetes, including scheduling, quotas, multi-cluster dispatch, autoscaling, and debugging GPU and node failures.
- Depth in training and inference performance, including distributed training, mixed precision, batching, and quantization.
- Experience defining success metrics, iterating on shipped systems, and improving measurable outcomes.
- Experience leading cross-team technical work without direct authority and communicating clearly with engineers and leaders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and company benefits.
- Office-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday.
- The listed annual base salary range applies to roles based at Roblox headquarters in San Mateo, California.
Tech Stack
Apache AirflowKubernetes
Categories
About Roblox
Roblox builds a platform for user‑generated 3D experiences, offering Roblox Studio for creators and a social marketplace where players explore and interact across devices. Its business model centers on virtual currency (Robux) and subscriptions, platform fees paid to creators, and an expanding advertising offering. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox Corporation is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker RBLX.