About the company
Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program games and play games created by other users. 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.
Job Summary
You will:
📍Help build our large distributed systems experiments shepherding results from all areas into production 📍Contribute to both public open source packages and internal research tools 📍Support our research targets, such as scaling 3D experiences to tens of thousands of players per server, real-time natural language voice translation, and generative AI tools for creating code and content 📍Report to our Principal Research Scientist
You have:
📍Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering 📍Experience in a research lab, such as an undergraduate thesis or research internship 📍Good technical communication skills 📍Ability to operate in two different development modes: 📍Rapid "throwaway" iteration and prototyping for experimental work 📍Traditional SWE for research infrastructure transferring work to product and open source 📍C++, Python, and version control systems
You are:
📍Responsible, independent, resourceful 📍Motivated by being a research toolmaker supporting the scientific process 📍Experienced in programming languages, APIs, and tools
