Distinguished Engineer, Machine Learning Systems – Economy

Overview Roblox is hiring a Distinguished Engineer for its Economy ML team to lead ML systems strategy across personalization, ranking, search, and GenAI-powered experiences. The role focuses on large-scale ML infrastructure, low-latency serving, GPU training, and technical leadership. Responsibilities - Set the technical direction for ML systems across economy experiences - Build and evolve infrastructure for training, serving, and evaluating ML and GenAI models - Partner on multi-modal embeddings, avatar generation, and RAG use cases - Optimize low-latency serving, GPU training, and cost-aware inference - Develop robust ML pipelines, online feature stores, and experimentation platforms - Collaborate with engineering and product partners on architecture and priorities - Mentor senior engineers and strengthen technical culture - Ensure robustness, observability, and scalability of ML systems Requirements - 10+ years of experience in software engineering or ML infrastructure - Deep experience with recommendation systems, ranking, or real-time personalization - Hands-on experience with transformer-based models, LLMs, embeddings, or RAG - Experience with distributed training, model deployment, and GPU workflows - Strong understanding of ML system architecture and experimentation tooling - Systems-first mindset focused on scale, cost, performance, and reliability - Experience leading large technical initiatives and mentoring senior engineers - BS, MS, or PhD in a related field Benefits - Full-time employees are eligible for equity compensation - Annual salary range: $397,460 to $455,720 USD - Office roles are onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional Monday and Friday presence Source https://careers.roblox.com/jobs/7332473?gh_jid=7332473