Jobs at Riot Games

The Sr. Manager of Machine Learning Engineering will lead anti-cheat engineering efforts, focusing on developing and managing ML systems to detect cheating in games. Responsibilities include guiding data teams, optimizing technical strategies, and ensuring the quality of ML pipelines.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop and evolve tools for Riot's content publishing system, ensuring reliability and scalability while mentoring junior engineers and collaborating on cross-discipline projects.

The Senior Manager, Software Engineering will oversee multiple engineering teams for an unpublished R&D product, defining engineering strategy, managing performance, and shaping product development. This role requires a hands-on approach in implementation and close collaboration with product teams, focusing on backend systems for game development and scaling technologies effectively.

Lead and mentor game designers for League of Legends, ensuring high-quality design standards, collaboration across teams, and alignment with player expectations and business goals.

Lead infrastructure tooling and automation across Riot: design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions, reduce engineering toil via tools (bots, agents, deployment systems), mentor engineers, drive standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, large-scale services.

Lead multiple engineering teams for VALORANT, overseeing service development, performance management, and cross-team collaboration, while driving technical direction and operational excellence.

The Senior Manager leads modernization of data engineering capabilities, ensuring reliable and scalable data systems while managing a team of data engineers to deliver impactful data products.

As a Staff Applied Modeling Engineer, you'll lead ML modeling strategies, design solutions for complex problems, and mentor team members. You'll collaborate across disciplines to enhance AI-powered game experiences.

As Sr. Manager of Esports Product Management, you will lead the development of esports ecosystems for Teamfight Tactics, align on game vision, manage programs, and drive player engagement strategies within the global esports community.

Define and maintain scalable Unreal Engine animation systems for player characters, NPCs, and creatures. Build complex state machines, layered animations, IK-driven behaviors, optimize performance, develop retargeting strategies, document best practices, and collaborate with animators, designers, and engineers to ensure robust, debuggable animation runtime across a large MMO environment.

Lead console development for an unpublished game. Collaborate across teams, solve technical problems, optimize performance, and mentor new engineers.

Test and evaluate upcoming VALORANT gameplay through playtests, create and manage test plans and risk assessments, provide evidence-based feedback, and work with developers to define objectives and conclude playtest results.

As a Staff Software Engineer at Riot Games, you'll enhance developer experience and efficiency across VALORANT by designing tools, mentoring junior engineers, and influencing best practices in a collaborative environment.

Build and maintain player-facing UI and gameplay features for League of Legends alternate game modes. Collaborate with designers, artists, and product partners, contribute to prototyping, participate in code reviews, maintenance, and on-call/live support.

As a Senior Game Designer, you will enhance player experiences by designing and optimizing game rules, collaborating with teams on card mechanics, and mentoring junior designers.

Design and implement large-scale metagame systems in collaboration with cross-functional teams, ensuring high-quality execution and integration with backend services.

Define and lead modeling architecture for personalization, matchmaking, recommendations, and social discovery. Build large-scale real-time inference systems, develop models for skill, behavior, trust & safety, and multi-objective optimization. Drive Responsible AI, experimentation, observability, and cross-functional standards while mentoring senior engineers and influencing ML strategy.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will develop web applications, maintain high-traffic APIs, lead architectural design, and mentor engineers.

The Senior Software Engineer will design and implement scalable gameplay and animation systems, collaborating with teams to enhance player experience and optimize performance.

As a Staff Software Engineer on the Unreal Ecosystem team, you'll develop high-quality code, advise on technical direction, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams to enhance game development.