2 months ago
San Mateo, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$295k - $345k/yr
Responsibilities
- Co-design machine learning models and infrastructure for recommendation, search, agentic applications, transformer architectures, LLMs, generative rankers, and content-understanding systems.
- Investigate end-to-end model, data, and systems tradeoffs across data pipelines, distributed training, low-latency inference, and production serving.
- Develop efficient KV-cache strategies, pruning and quantization approaches, GPU utilization and memory optimizations, and custom kernels where needed.
- Lead strategic planning and roadmap execution for scalable production ML systems covering training, data pipelines, feature engineering, and inference.
- Own the architecture and engineering best practices for scalable, reliable, and cost-effective ML infrastructure.
- Partner with data scientists, ML engineers, platform teams, and product stakeholders to design, implement, and operate robust ML platforms.
- Track industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure and guide adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying large-scale machine learning systems in production environments.
- 3+ years of experience tech leading ML infrastructure engineers.
- Experience with modern ML systems technologies such as FSDP, vLLM, SGLang, CUDA, distributed training frameworks, inference engines, and GPU kernels.
- Bachelor's, master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem solving.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation and benefits.
- San Mateo headquarters-based roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence Monday and Friday unless otherwise noted.
- Roblox provides reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process for candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs.
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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.