Lead AI Architect for AI-Native Studio

Roblox; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 399,420 - 457,970; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

On-site office

Job summary

Roblox is transforming Roblox Studio into an AI-Native IDE. We seek a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of agentic AI systems deep inside Roblox Studio.

This hands-on IC role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, shaping architecture and writing code. You will craft systems for planning, execution, validation, and evaluation, focusing on latency, throughput, and cost, while raising the applied-AI fluency across Studio

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience, owning large-scale platforms.
• Hands-on experience building production-grade LLM-powered and agentic systems.
• Strong systems and software engineering skills; able to design architecture and write code.
• Track record defining evaluation frameworks for AI product quality; optimizing latency, throughput, cost.
• Background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms; ability to steer technical direction across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE; ensure production-grade reliability.
• Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across workflows.
• Own the quality bar and evaluation strategy with automated and human-in-the-loop reviews.
• Optimize systems for latency, throughput and cost (caching, routing, distillation, quantization).
• Bring reusable patterns and best practices to teams across Studio to raise applied-AI fluency.

Skills

LLM systems

Agentic systems

Platform engineering

Developer tools

Architectural design

Job description

Roblox is transforming Roblox Studio into an AI-Native IDE. We seek a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of agentic AI systems deep inside Roblox Studio.

This hands-on IC role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, shaping architecture and writing code. You will craft systems for planning, execution, validation, and evaluation, focusing on latency, throughput, and cost, while raising the applied-AI fluency across Studio