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Senior Hardware Engineer - Infrastructure

Roblox
San Mateo, CA, United States
Posted 15 hours ago
Last seen 15 hours ago
Active
full-time
Engineering Operations
$242,100 - $293,800 USD

Job Summary

Join Roblox as a Senior Hardware Engineer to shape the future of human interaction by developing and validating next-generation server platforms. You'll tackle unique technical challenges at scale, ensuring a reliable and high-performing infrastructure for millions of users worldwide.

About this job

As a Senior Hardware Engineer on the Infrastructure Foundation Hardware Engineering team, you will develop and validate next-generation server platforms for Roblox's large-scale infrastructure. This role involves driving the hardware development lifecycle, including bring-up, validation, deployment, and ongoing production support. You will focus on platform optimization, rigorous hardware validation, and firmware qualification to ensure reliability and performance.

Requirements

- Drive key aspects of the hardware development lifecycle, including feasibility studies, hardware bring-up, validation, deployment, and ongoing production support. - Perform platform integration, performance characterization, and system-level debugging across compute infrastructure. - Develop and execute rigorous evaluation and stress-testing strategies for server platforms. - Support BIOS/BMC firmware qualification, hardware health monitoring, and automation tooling. - Partner with hardware vendors and internal infrastructure teams to investigate component- and system-level failures. - 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 (PCIe, NVMe, Ethernet/InfiniB, memory subsystems, 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. - Decisive and effective at tracking hardware issues from identification through to fleet-wide resolution. - Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to translate complex hardware constraints into actionable insights for software teams. - Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead cross-functional projects. - Willing to travel occasionally to data centers or vendor sites.

Benefits & Perks

- Equity compensation - Comprehensive benefits

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