Technical Director, AI Studio: Agentic AI Lead

Roblox; California (MO); On-site; USD 399,000 - 458,000; Full time

Job summary

Roblox Studio is evolving into an AI-Native IDE. Roblox is seeking a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio.

This hands-on IC role operates at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, where you will set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code. For roles at our San Mateo HQ, the starting base pay is shown below and equity and benefits apply.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of engineering experience on large-scale platforms.
• Hands-on experience building LLM-powered systems in production.
• Strong systems and software engineering skills; able to design architecture and write code.
• Track record defining evaluation frameworks for AI product quality.
• Background in developer tools or IDE-like platforms; able to raise quality across teams.
• Preferred: experience with coding models or code-generation; RLHF/RLAIF research.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the agentic AI systems at the core of the AI-Native IDE (planning, execution, validation, evaluation) so they are production-grade and reliable.
• Decide how Studio uses coding models, agents, retrieval, tool calling, and context management across the Assistant and the broader creator workflow.
• Own the quality bar and evaluation strategy, standing up quantitative and qualitative eval pipelines, including human-in-the-loop, so we ship with confidence.
• Optimize these systems for latency, throughput, and cost (caching, routing, distillation, quantization).
• Bring reusable patterns and best practices to teams across Studio, raising the applied‑AI fluency of Studio engineering.

Skills

LLM-powered systems

Agentic systems

Software engineering

Evaluation frameworks

Developer tools / IDEs

Tools

Coding models

Code-generation systems

RLHF / RLAIF

Job description

Roblox Studio is evolving into an AI-Native IDE. Roblox is seeking a Technical Director, Applied AI to own the technical direction of agentic AI systems embedded deeply into Roblox Studio.

This hands-on IC role operates at the intersection of platform engineering, AI systems, and developer experience, where you will set the technical direction, design the architecture, and write the code. For roles at our San Mateo HQ, the starting base pay is shown below and equity and benefits apply.