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[2026] Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Systems), Embodied AI/NPCs, ML Platform - PhD Early Career

Roblox · Early Career Full-Time

Location
San Mateo, CA, United States
Metro
San Francisco Bay Area
Workplace
Unspecified
Level
Senior
Type
Unspecified
Pay
$197K–$243K/yr (estimated from posting text)
Posted
4 months ago
Source
Greenhouse

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What the posting covers

About the company

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…

Team

Creator Services Machine Intelligence Team: The Machine Intelligence team is building an NPC system that can (1) play any Roblox game and (2) perform real-time inference efficiently enough to support deployment to all Roblox players. ML Platform Team: The…

What You Will Do

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you will be a key contributor to building the cutting-edge systems that power AI at Roblox.

Creator Services Machine Intelligence Team

Develop Scale Data Pipelines: Design, build and maintain robust data pipelines to collect complex 3D game states and real-time player actions across the platform. Train Novel Architectures: Solve the feature extraction across games for NPC model in a general…

Track 1: AI Platform Projects

Pioneer next-generation AI tooling to enhance the efficiency, cost, and usability of ML@Roblox. Build and maintain core platform components: Serving Layer, Model Registry, Pipeline Orchestrator, and Training/Inference control planes. Design great developer…

Track 2: Distributed Inference & Systems Optimization

Architect and implement scalable distributed inference systems for efficiently serving LLMs and Large Recommender Models at massive scale. Optimize our inference engine to serve millions of QPS at low latency. Conduct deep, low-level performance analysis and…

You Have

Possessing or pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field, with a thesis aligned to Roblox’s research areas. Built end-to-end ML pipelines and managed model inference and deployment.…