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Design, create, and implement polished real-time gameplay and environmental visual effects for an unpublished game product. Balance visual impact with gameplay clarity, establish scalable VFX practices, collaborate across disciplines, mentor artists, uphold quality standards, and contribute to team and discipline development in an iterative environment.

Lead global brand strategy and end-to-end campaign planning for VALORANT across PC, console, and mobile platforms. Develop strategic briefs, guide creative execution, coordinate matrixed regional and cross-functional teams, manage budgets, establish KPIs, analyze campaign performance, and shape full-year publishing roadmaps for live-service, esports, and platform initiatives.

Software Engineering Interns collaborate on player-facing game features, backend services, real-time data processing, globally scaled services, SDKs, and APIs. Interns work with experienced developers and gain exposure to current and emerging technologies. Required qualifications include enrollment in a related degree program, 2028 graduation, object-oriented programming experience, data structures and algorithms knowledge, a minimum 2.5 GPA, and full-time availability for 12 weeks.

Develop and maintain scalable creative tools and Digital Asset Management services for game development teams. Lead technical vision, architecture, and implementation across backend services, data platforms, deployment, monitoring, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Collaborate with artists, designers, producers, infrastructure engineers, QA, and game developers to solve complex problems, improve development workflows, and deliver robust tooling. Provide technical guidance, documentation, training, and cross-functional influence while supporting large codebases and shipped products.

Lead the architecture, development, and maintenance of Digital Asset Management and creative tooling for game development teams. Build scalable software, support AI-assisted engineering tools and AI/ML workloads, guide multi-year technical initiatives, establish engineering standards, and collaborate with artists, designers, infrastructure, QA, and game developers. Provide technical leadership, documentation, training, and cross-functional guidance while delivering tools for large codebases and shipped products.

Lead Riot’s Anti-Cheat Engineering team developing and evolving Vanguard’s Windows client services. Set technical direction, manage and recruit engineers, translate emerging cheat threats into detections and mitigations, and guide investigations involving kernel manipulation, evasive cheats, and compatibility issues. Partner with game, product, operations, and engineering teams to deliver secure, reliable anti-cheat capabilities while balancing security, performance, player experience, and delivery risks.

Leads modeling architecture and real-time machine learning systems for personalization, matchmaking, social recommendations, player retention, and community health. Designs graph ML, reinforcement learning, contextual bandit, and representation learning solutions while optimizing fairness, latency, scalability, and model observability. Partners across product, software, data, research, and platform teams; establishes ML standards, governance, experimentation practices, and responsible AI controls. Mentors senior engineers and data scientists and provides organization-wide technical leadership.

Lead design for League of Legends’ ARAM: Mayhem mode by creating Augments, content, and systems that deliver engaging player experiences. Mentor game designers, guide design quality, conduct discovery and playtesting, and improve team processes for sustainable live-service content delivery. The role requires deep League player insight, set-based design expertise, and scripting experience in a shipped game.

Build and evolve large-scale infrastructure, tooling, and automation for Riot’s engineering teams. Design systems that reduce toil, improve deployment workflows, and leverage AI capabilities such as bots, agents, and MCP servers. Partner with stakeholders and senior leadership, improve engineering standards, mentor teammates, and promote reliable, high-quality software across distributed systems, cloud platforms, containers, and Kubernetes.

Develop and maintain scalable desktop application features for Riot Client, focusing on web technologies and integrating C++ components. Contribute to technical design, planning, and implementation; collaborate with product, design, QA, and data teams; understand complex dependencies; and mentor engineers. Help improve game distribution, content, social, and developer productivity capabilities across Riot’s desktop ecosystem.