Roblox · 2 months ago
Senior / Principal Inference Engineer - ML Platform
San Mateo, CA, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$273K/yr - $355K/yr
4+ years expRoblox is a platform that enables users to explore, create, and connect in immersive digital experiences. They are seeking a Senior / Principal Inference Engineer to develop high-scale, reliable infrastructure systems for model inference, contributing to the next generation of ML platform tooling.
3D TechnologyGamingMetaverseOnline GamesSoftwareVideo Games
Responsibilities
Set technical strategy and oversee development of high scale, reliable infrastructure systems for large-scale inference, especially as we scale up both inference qps and model size
Dig into performance bottlenecks all along the inference stack, spanning from model optimizations to infrastructure optimizations
Stay abreast of industry trends in machine learning and infrastructure to ensure the adoption of leading-edge technologies and practices
Bootstrap and maintain infrastructure for ML Platform components—Serving Layer, Metadata Store, Model Registry, and Pipeline Orchestrator
Partner across organizations to build tooling, interfaces, and visualizations that make the ML@Roblox a delight to use
Qualification
Required
4+ years of professional experience and a tool chest of system design experience upon which to draw to build scalable, reliable platforms for all of Roblox
Experience building complex distributed systems that scale to real-time ML inference serving, ideally for real-time recommendation systems serving millions of QPS
Experience debugging complicated infrastructure-level performance issues to enable low latency, high throughput inference
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Science, or a similar technical field
Preferred
Ideally familiar with ML model inference frameworks like Triton Inference Server, TensorRT, KServe
Benefits
Equity compensation
Benefits as described on this page
Company
Roblox
Roblox is an online gaming and entertainment platform that offers a shared digital experience that brings people together through play.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$874.45MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzAltos Ventures
2024-10-01Post Ipo Equity
2022-04-12Series Unknown· $17.71M
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Leadership Team
David Baszucki
Founder and CEO
Michael Guthrie
CFO
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