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Principal Software Engineer, Build Platform

San Mateo, CAFull-time$345k–$399k2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10
HybridNo visa sponsorship

Core

Senior technical leader shaping the architecture for AI-powered creation tools on Roblox, enabling users to build games via natural language descriptions.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (AI/ML Infrastructure)

Builds

Cloud-hosted agent harness, tools, skills, and evaluation framework for AI-driven game creation.

Domain

Gaming / Generative AI / Distributed Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Large-scale distributed systems, Backend platform design, Production AI/ML systems (LLM integration, agentic execution), Tool and skill design, Structured evaluation for AI systems, Technical leadership

Preferred skills

Workflow engines (Temporal), Multi-provider model routing, AI cost management

Technologies

LLMs, Temporal, Cloud infrastructure

Responsibilities

Own technical architecture and roadmap for the Build agent platform, Design for reliability/safety/observability/cost in AI workloads, Define agent quality measurement and evaluation infrastructure, Partner with product/ML/Safety teams, Mentor engineers and raise the engineering bar