Senior Engineering Manager, AI Roblox Studio

Roblox•San Mateo, CA

16d•$345,040 - $399,420•Hybrid

About The Position

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's engineering team is expanding rapidly, and we're looking for a seasoned engineering leader to help us scale our AI-powered creation platform and team. As a Senior Engineering Manager within the Creator Group, you will lead the Studio Assistant team — driving the strategy and execution of our agentic AI system that powers creation for millions of Roblox creators. Your team owns everything end-end from the user experience in Studio, to the infrastructure underneath backend by a single cloud-native architecture: one harness, one tool set, one eval framework. Your work will empower millions of creators to plan, generate, and ship content faster than ever before. At Roblox we move fast and ship code to production daily; your leadership will increase productivity by removing obstacles and keeping processes lean. You will identify and mitigate risk and make sure the technology outpaces our growth. Roblox teams are inclusive, helpful, and have a strong sense of ownership over the things they build. If you have a desire to grow and learn, you will fit right in with our highly-skilled and ever-expanding engineering team.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in large-scale software deployments with a proven track record of leading large teams (15+) and delivering highly performant technical solutions.
Experience building or leading teams that ship AI/ML-powered products in production.
BS in Computer Science; MS/PhD are a definite plus.
Experience with agentic systems, LLM orchestration, evaluation frameworks, and the operational challenges of shipping AI features reliably at scale.
Ability to identify high-impact opportunities, shape them into a roadmap, and get buy-in from leadership and partner teams to make them happen.
Track record of working across organizational boundaries — aligning with partner teams on shared goals, navigating competing priorities, and driving joint execution on complex cross-team initiatives.
Personality that invigorates the team around you and experience leading and growing technical teams in any situation.
Experience defining architecture for AI systems at scale and excitement about the challenges of shipping agentic workflows to millions of creators.
Ability to be hands-on and still define an architecture from scratch — model orchestration, tool execution, evaluation pipelines — and make sure it scales from early adopters to millions of users.
Comfort across the full stack of an AI-powered product: cloud orchestration, LLM integration and model routing, skill/tool execution, and creator-facing client experiences.
Ability to easily adapt to any situation when the need arises and come up with the right solution.
Deep understanding of AI infrastructure — model serving, reliability, observability, and multi-step execution loops including planning, tool use, and recovery.
Ability to evaluate tradeoffs, recommend pragmatic solutions, and bring a team of engineers to consensus.
Love to pick up new technologies as the AI landscape evolves rapidly.

Responsibilities

Grow our organization by attracting and retaining the best talent in AI engineering and applied ML.
Own the technical strategy for our agentic AI stack — balancing speed, reliability, and creator experience.
Balance researching emerging AI capabilities with a practical approach to shipping them into the Roblox product.
Lead other engineers by example, through technical direction, and by authoring specs for new features and architectural improvements.
Put the Roblox creator community first and represent the company through thought leadership.