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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. \nA 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.\nAs a Distinguished Engineer/Technical Director on Discovery, you’ll be in charge of the overall technical vision and execution for all machine learning initiatives across search and discovery teams. The mission of these teams is to connect a billion users with the best connections and content at the right time, covering a very diverse range of search and recommendation problems at a high scale. This is fundamental to how we personalize the experience to drive engagement and retention for Roblox users. 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You would be responsible for setting the AI strategy, pushing the frontier of recommendation technology, and driving business outcomes across candidate generation, ranking, objective functions, and value delivery for both users and developers.\nBuild and evolve infrastructure for training, serving, and evaluating both traditional ML models and Generative AI models (e.g., embedding-based retrieval, transformers, LLM-based workflows)\nYou will co-design models and systems, working at the intersection of model architecture and infrastructure, partnering closely with core modelers, data and AI infrastructure engineers, and product teams to push the boundaries of large-scale training and serving. \nLead other engineers by example and through technical direction as an individual contributor and create an engineering culture of excellence\nBecome an authority on our technology stack and make sure we always build new solutions the right way\nCollaborate with other teams within Roblox to make sure we are building products with community and company first attitude.\nBalance researching new technologies with a practical approach to realize the research efforts into the Roblox products\nCollaborate with the industry and communities where applicable and be ambassador for Roblox.\nYou Have:\n10+ years of experience and a consistent record of delivering and improving large-scale search and recommendation systems.\nExperience crafting and building large scale machine learning models with billions of parameters and launching them into production.\nThe capability of breaking down long-term product requirements into iterative deliverable stages.\nInitiated and facilitated challenging technical decisions across multiple teams and organizations. You are empathetic and find common understanding.\nDeep technical expertise, you always start with the needs of the user, whether they are Roblox users or internal engineers.\nA generalist approach and you have mastered several languages and technologies already; you can easily adapt to any situation. \nThe ability to roll up your sleeves to tackle data problems or machine learning problems when they come up.\nA creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. You simplify the complex. You bring in fresh ideas from new places.\nBS in Computer Science or a related discipline, MS/PhD are a definite plus.\nFor roles that are based at our headquarters in San Mateo, CA: The starting base pay for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, location, business needs and market demand. 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