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Engineering Director, Immersive Media
2 years ago
Every day, tens of millions of people from around the world come to Roblox to play, learn, work, and socialize in immersive digital experiences created by the community. Our vision is to build a platform that enables shared experiences among billions of users. This is what’s known as the metaverse: a persistent space where anyone can do just about anything they can imagine, from anywhere in the world and on any device. Join us and you’ll usher in a new category of human interaction while solving exceptional challenges that you won’t find anywhere else.
As a Director, Immersive Media, you'll work in our core game engine group to lead our Audio/Video team as we are building our core infrastructure to enable real-time large-scale immersive experiences . Think of simulating 10k users cheering during a concert –with acoustics that sound differently automatically based on if it's an indoor or outdoor concert- while performers create compelling new music experiences. Or, think of being able to broadcast a live sporting event to millions of watchers in the metaverse. Or, think of enabling the latest summer hit movie to debut on Roblox. If you are excited about building the teams to enable all those use cases and make sure it scales to our 6M+ concurrent users, this is the right job for you!
You Are:
- Battle ready: You have already led engineering teams to support real-time audio/video system systems for a large consumer application and are not afraid of any part of the technical stack (signal processing, encoding, transport, transcoding, etc…). You are also eager to innovate to create the perfect metaverse experience, in particular sound design in a 3d world excites you…
- Experienced: You have 10+ years of management experience, have built teams from scratch, know how to hire/retain talent, and grow managers. You have a BS in Computer Science - an Advanced degree is a definite plus.
- Knowledgeable: You understand all the components required to build a real-time streaming system and can go deep on any required area from networking, protocols, codecs up to buffering/rendering. You can use your knowledge to challenge your team to get the better of themselves.
- Creative: You take a creative and strategic approach to solving hard problems. Bringing real-time streaming to build an immersive 3D world should get you thinking about a ton of problems to solve… and really excited as a result.
- Team-oriented: You have a magnetic personality that invigorates the team around you and you are used to leading technical teams in any situation.
You Will:
- Build and lead the organization that will create our next gen real-time immersive audio simulation platform.
- Mentor senior engineers and managers to make sure your team expertise grows over time.
- Collaborate with different teams to improve existing and develop new functionality, pipelines, and workflow.
- Be guided by our company vision to put the Roblox community first and represent us through thought leadership.
You’ll Love:
- Industry-leading compensation package
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- A rewarding 401k program
- Flexible vacation policy
- Roflex - Flexible and supportive work policy
- Roblox Admin badge for your avatar
- At Roblox HQ:
- Free catered lunches
- Onsite fitness center and fitness program credit
- Annual CalTrain Go Pass