Technical Director, Machine Learning (Individual Contributor)
San Mateo, CA, United States
Roblox
Roblox is the ultimate virtual universe that lets you create, share experiences with friends, and be anything you can imagine. Join millions of people and discover an infinite variety of immersive experiences created by a global community!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.
As a Technical Director on the Game Engine team, you will work on state-of-the-art real time AI and Machine Learning projects across Roblox to empower a new generation of Roblox experiences for our growing community of users. We are looking for AI/ML leaders to shape the vision of low compute cost, real time machine learning at Roblox, taking leads on designing core components of Engine team ML operations. We are designing a platform for advancing model architecture, enabling more efficient deployment from cloud to client devices, while delivering on complex operations including Generative AI and very large model deployment. This Technical Director will be driving the architecture optimization across a large range of compute devices, making efficient use of available local & remote compute resources, and designing novel distributed compute architectures for AI and ML at scale. Join us in our exciting journey!
You have:
- A strong understanding of deep learning frameworks including PyTorch and Tensorflow, as well as machine learning feature development workflows from training to deployment.
- Experience in shipping ML features in production environments.
- Experience optimizing & deploying models to mobile devices.
- Knowledge in state-of-the-art deep learning network architectures and primitives.
- Strong cross-functional skills, partnering with organization leaders, driving to a conclusion.
- 10+ years in two or more languages (Python, C++, Rust, Lua, Go or JavaScript) and passionate to learn more.
- Experience with distributed systems or heterogeneous compute environments
- Experience with compiler stack development.
- Experience with model optimization techniques like quantization, pruning, neural architecture search
You will:
- Work with ML experts across the company to understand their workflows and requirements to inform the next set of features for the platform.
- Build cross-functional alignment across different teams at Roblox: game-engine, backend and cloud compute, Roblox studio and developer tools, machine learning teams.
- Design seamless workflow from model training to model inference on a mobile device or a server in the cloud.
- Provide guidance to the junior members of the team.
- Design and implement primary components of the machine learning platform.
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches five times a week and several fully stocked kitchens with unlimited snacks
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass
Roblox provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Tags: Architecture Deep Learning Distributed Systems Generative AI JavaScript Lua Machine Learning Model deployment Model inference Model training Python PyTorch Rust TensorFlow
Perks/benefits: Career development Equity Flex hours Flex vacation Health care Unlimited paid time off
More jobs like this
Explore more AI, ML, Data Science career opportunities
Find even more open roles in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision (CV), Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Big Data, and Data Science in general - ordered by popularity of job title or skills, toolset and products used - below.
- Open MLOps Engineer jobs
- Open Data Science Manager jobs
- Open Lead Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Manager jobs
- Open Senior Business Intelligence Analyst jobs
- Open Data Engineer II jobs
- Open Power BI Developer jobs
- Open Sr Data Engineer jobs
- Open Principal Data Engineer jobs
- Open Business Intelligence Developer jobs
- Open Junior Data Scientist jobs
- Open Data Analytics Engineer jobs
- Open Product Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Scientist II jobs
- Open Sr. Data Scientist jobs
- Open Senior Data Architect jobs
- Open Business Data Analyst jobs
- Open Data Analyst Intern jobs
- Open Big Data Engineer jobs
- Open Manager, Data Engineering jobs
- Open Azure Data Engineer jobs
- Open Junior Data Engineer jobs
- Open Data Product Manager jobs
- Open Data Quality Analyst jobs
- Open Principal Data Scientist jobs
- Open GCP-related jobs
- Open Data quality-related jobs
- Open Business Intelligence-related jobs
- Open ML models-related jobs
- Open Java-related jobs
- Open Data management-related jobs
- Open Privacy-related jobs
- Open Finance-related jobs
- Open Data visualization-related jobs
- Open Deep Learning-related jobs
- Open PhD-related jobs
- Open APIs-related jobs
- Open TensorFlow-related jobs
- Open PyTorch-related jobs
- Open NLP-related jobs
- Open Consulting-related jobs
- Open Snowflake-related jobs
- Open CI/CD-related jobs
- Open LLMs-related jobs
- Open Kubernetes-related jobs
- Open Generative AI-related jobs
- Open Data governance-related jobs
- Open Hadoop-related jobs
- Open Airflow-related jobs
- Open Docker-related jobs