Multimodal Safety AI Engineering Lead

Roblox; California (MO); On-site; USD 295,000 - 345,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Benefits package

Job summary

Roblox is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems to lead multimodal ML efforts, mentor engineers, and drive scalable models from design to production. You will work with Product, Policy, and Trust & Safety teams to define a bold roadmap, balancing user safety with platform growth.

The role emphasizes leadership in ML architecture, collaboration across functions, and staying ahead of moderation techniques to keep a safe environment for billions of interactions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building large-scale ML systems in production.
• 2+ years hands-on with vision-language or foundation models.
• Experience with modern microservice architectures and distributed systems.
• Ability to thrive in ambiguity and lead across functions.
• Strong product sense and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own vision and execution of Multimodal Safety AI ML solutions.
• Lead and grow a high-performing ML team.
• Break long-term goals into an actionable, iterative roadmap.
• Architect scalable ML models with production readiness.
• Drive alignment across teams on technical decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, Data Science, Policy, Design, and Ops.
• Stay ahead of AI/ML and content moderation trends.

Skills

ML leadership

Vision-language models

Production ML

Cross-functional

Mentoring engineers

Job description

Roblox is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager for Safety AI Systems to lead multimodal ML efforts, mentor engineers, and drive scalable models from design to production. You will work with Product, Policy, and Trust & Safety teams to define a bold roadmap, balancing user safety with platform growth.

The role emphasizes leadership in ML architecture, collaboration across functions, and staying ahead of moderation techniques to keep a safe environment for billions of interactions.