Design Engineer

Roblox
San Mateo
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 176,940 - 214,710 annuallyFunction: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)Experience: 3+ yearsSkills: ["Figma plugin","API design","Cloud infrastructure","GitHub Enterprise","Cursor","Lua"]

Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team builds scalable backend services, APIs, and data architectures to connect Roblox design tools with AI models and production environments. You’ll develop agentic workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling (Figma/Cursor plugins) to enable designers and engineers to work faster, with secure, high-performance tooling that scales across platforms and production environments.

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Roblox
Roblox
3 months ago

Design Engineer

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Job Summary

Design Engineer on the Design Acceleration team builds scalable backend services, APIs, and data architectures to connect Roblox design tools with AI models and production environments. You’ll develop agentic workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling (Figma/Cursor plugins) to enable designers and engineers to work faster, with secure, high-performance tooling that scales across platforms and production environments.
Location: San Mateo
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Design (Product/UX/UI/Visual)

Key Responsibilities

  • •Architect and build scalable backend services and APIs that connect design tools to AI models and production environments (Roblox Studio).
  • •Develop agentic workflows and orchestration layers to enable natural language generation of UI components, layouts, and prototypes.
  • •Build automated CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure to create zero-config development environments for non-technical designers.
  • •Design and maintain the data architecture that connects our design system to AI data sources and ensures tokens and components are accessible across platforms.
  • •Create internal tools and plugins for design tools (Figma, Cursor) and build web apps for design linting, code generation, and automated compliance.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 176,940 - 214,710 annually

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years of software engineering with a focus on full-stack or backend development, systems architecture, and API design
  • •Demonstrated experience building scalable internal services beyond front-end interfaces
  • •Familiarity with LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and AI protocols (e.g., MCP)
  • •Experience with cloud infrastructure, feature-flag management, GitHub Enterprise, and automated deployment pipelines
  • •Strong understanding of Figma plugin architecture and programmatic design data manipulation
Experience:3+ yearsDesign toolingAISoftware engineering
Skills:Figma pluginAPI designCloud infrastructureGitHub EnterpriseCursorLua
Languages:English
Tech Stack:LLM orchestrationAIAPIsCloudGitHub EnterpriseFigma pluginCursorLua

Company Brief

Roblox
Operates an online platform for user-generated games and virtual experiences, enabling creators to build, publish, and monetize interactive 3D experiences for a global community of players.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 2004
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