JobPosting
title: Design Engineer
description: Every day, tens of millions of people come to Roblox to explore, create, play, learn, and connect with friends in 3D immersive digital experiences – all created by our global community of developers and creators. 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. As a Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team, you'll be an individual contributor focused on evolving the systems and processes which power Roblox's design organisation through scalable systems, AI integrations, and custom tooling. Our team is responsible for building the orchestration layers and internal tools that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You will help build internal tools, like Figma plugins and design utilities, that empower designers and engineers to work faster and more cohesively. You have experience at the intersection of systems engineering and design tooling. You understand design systems, but your superpower is building the backend services, APIs, and data models that allow those systems to scale. Your work will help ensure our design tools, AI agents, and prototypes not only inspire – but deploy seamlessly into production environments. Responsibilities Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect our design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio). Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers (such as Model Context Protocol servers) to enable natural language generation of UI components, l…
date posted: 2026-08-01T16:20:40.784Z
valid through: 2026-09-30T16:20:40.784Z
direct apply: false
occupational category: Engineering
industry: Technology
skills: software engineering
skills: full-stack development
skills: backend development
skills: systems architecture
skills: API design
skills: LLM orchestration
skills: agentic workflows
skills: AI protocols
skills: cloud infrastructure
skills: feature-flag management
skills: version control
skills: automated deployment pipelines
skills: Figma plugin architecture
skills: Roblox development
skills: Lua/React-Lua
skills: game-engine UI architecture
skills: ASTs (Abstract Syntax Trees)
skills: compiler logic
skills: automated code generation
hiring organization: Roblox
job location: Place
  address: PostalAddress
    address locality: San Mateo
    address region: CA
    address country: US
employment type: FULL_TIME
base salary: MonetaryAmount
  currency: USD
  value: QuantitativeValue
    min value: 163830
    max value: 202550
    unit text: YEAR