Avatar Personalization Architect

Roblox Corporation; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Avatar Personalization. This role focuses on advancing avatar systems, APIs, and tooling within the Roblox engine, impacting tens of millions of players and creators.

You will tackle large architectural projects, provide technical leadership, and coordinate across teams to deliver scalable, high‑quality avatar features on mobile, tablet, PC, and console.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience working on a consumer-facing game engine and/or game application.
• Proficiency with C++, 3D math, data structures, algorithms, and networking.
• Experience working on character building and customization systems, editors, and content creation tools.
• Experience building online console or mobile game titles.
• Experience with game or film character systems such as animation, rigid-body or cloth/hair physics, or shading.

Responsibilities

• Implement groundbreaking features in Roblox game engine to build the best avatar system in the world.
• Build APIs for Roblox developers enabling in-experience creation of Roblox Avatars from scratch.
• Enhance avatar fidelity and uniqueness on Roblox.
• Use the Roblox game engine to build excellent vertical applications for multiple platforms (mobile, tablet, PC, and console).
• Refactor and improve our existing codebase, and establish architectural standards for system reliability, performance, and test coverage.
• Work with numerous teams to help build the world's best user generated gaming platform.

Skills

C++

3D math

Data structures

Algorithms

Networking

Character building and customization

Editors

Content creation tools

Online console or mobile titles

Animation

Physics - rigid body / cloth / hair /;

Tools

Lua

Job description

Roblox Corporation is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for Avatar Personalization. This role focuses on advancing avatar systems, APIs, and tooling within the Roblox engine, impacting tens of millions of players and creators.

You will tackle large architectural projects, provide technical leadership, and coordinate across teams to deliver scalable, high‑quality avatar features on mobile, tablet, PC, and console.