Senior Software Engineer, Riot Games

• BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent field
• 2+ years developing distributed computing systems
• 2+ years deep learning
• Experience optimizing distributed systems, algorithms, neural network architectures, neural network inference, hyperparameters, CPU, memory, networking, or other resource contention
• PyTorch or TensorFlow
• AWS or GCP

Desirable

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives
• You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering
• Tech Research performs applied research to build AI enabled applications for our game teams and to establish AI as a core capability at Riot
• Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains
• In this role, you will be responsible for developing and optimizing the distributed deep learning computing infrastructure required to train AI agents at scale
• You will work alongside a team of research scientists to build AI agents for various applications in gaming
• You may also be building tooling, visualization, and proof-of-concept prototypes to demonstrate functionality to the game teams
• Develop and optimize a distributed training infrastructure used for training AI agents on complex games
• Lead the proof-of-concept implementation of AI features for players and designers
• Integrate game servers into research & training infrastructure
• Prototype ideas for visualizing AI behavior or for new applications