Director of Engineering, Economy ML

Roblox is seeking a Director of Engineering to lead and scale Economy ML, an organization that builds ML and AI systems powering personalization, search, pricing, recommendations, and virtual item intelligence across Roblox Economy surfaces including Avatar Marketplace, Payments, Developer Monetization, and Subscriptions. The Director will define strategy, organization, and execution model for a fast-growing ML organization spanning recommendation systems, ML infrastructure, search, content intelligence, and Generative AI applications. Hybrid in San Mateo, CA (Tue/Wed/Thu onsite). Salary: $399,420–$457,970 USD.

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including significant leadership experience managing engineering organizations. • Experience leading teams focused on machine learning, recommendation systems, search, ranking, or large-scale distributed systems. • Strong technical depth in ML systems, infrastructure, and modern machine learning architectures. • Experience with recommendation systems, marketplace/e-commerce ML, search, or ads systems. • Experience with Generative AI, LLMs, multi-modal models, or foundation model architectures. • Experience operating at large scale, including high-throughput inference systems, distributed training, or real-time personalization platforms. • Proven ability to drive cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams and organizations. • Strong product and business intuition with a track record of delivering measurable impact.