Senior Hardware Engineer - Infrastructure

Roblox Corporation

Job Overview

Location

San Mateo, CA, United States

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 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.
• 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 member of the Infrastructure Foundation Hardware Engineering team, you will help develop and validate next-generation server platforms that power a reliable, high-performing, and cost-efficient infrastructure at scale.
• You will work across platform bring-up, firmware qualification, hardware validation, fleet integration, and performance optimization to support large-scale production deployments.
• You will drive key aspects of the hardware development lifecycle, including feasibility studies, hardware bring-up, validation, deployment, and ongoing production support.
• You will perform platform integration, performance characterization, and system-level debugging across compute infrastructure, focusing on hardware optimization, driver tuning, and thermal/power efficiency.
• You will develop and execute rigorous evaluation and stress-testing strategies for server platforms to ensure reliability and performance under production-scale workloads.
• You will support BIOS/BMC firmware qualification, hardware health monitoring, and automation tooling for firmware deployment and lifecycle management.
• You will partner with hardware vendors and internal infrastructure teams to investigate component- and system-level failures across hardware, drivers, firmware, and kernel layers.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hardware engineering, system architecture, or infrastructure validation experience.
• BS/MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong understanding of Linux-based server environments, modern data center technologies, and server architecture including PCIe, NVMe, Ethernet/InfiniBand, and memory subsystems, and accelerator-based platforms.
• Hands-on experience testing and validating CPU, Memory, Storage, and high-speed networking subsystems in a Linux environment.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Bash for developing hardware validation tools and automation scripts.
• Strong experience debugging complex server issues remotely, including analysis of kernel logs, hardware registers, and bus-level traces/captures.
• Familiarity with GPU platforms, AI accelerators, or high-performance compute (HPC) systems is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual salary range: $243,290 - $295,250 USD.
• Eligibility for equity compensation.
• Eligibility for benefits as described on this page.
• Onsite presence on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, with optional presence on Monday and Friday (unless otherwise noted).
• Equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
• Reasonable accommodations to candidates with qualifying disabilities or religious beliefs during the recruiting process.
• For US based roles only, the Company may not be able to employ candidates for this role who have United States work authorization related to certain U.S. visa categories, or support future H-1B sponsorship at this time.

Skills & Technologies

Python

Linux

DevOps

Senior

Remote

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About Roblox Corporation

Roblox Corporation develops and operates the Roblox online platform where users create, share, and play games and experiences built by its global community. The company offers a game engine, cloud services, and social infrastructure enabling user-generated 3D worlds and virtual economies. Revenue comes from virtual currency sales, advertising, and licensing. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Mateo, California, Roblox serves millions of daily active users worldwide across PC, mobile, and console devices.

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