Staff Software Engineer, Tools (Full-Stack) (AI/ML, Unreal Engine)

Company

Riot Games develops games and player-focused interactive experiences.

What you will do

• Build the foundational Digital Asset Management system supporting creative tools across game teams.
• Design, implement, operate, and maintain robust, scalable full-stack tools for content-creation workflows.
• Evaluate and integrate AI-assisted engineering tools to improve code quality, reliability, security, performance, and developer productivity.
• Lead technical execution for multi-month and year-plus initiatives, setting standards across the business unit.
• Define architecture and technical direction while communicating risks, trade-offs, and decisions across disciplines.
• Partner with artists, designers, production, infrastructure, game developers, and QA teams on tooling, releases, documentation, and training.

Requirements

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including shipped or live products at scale.
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms, inference services, model-serving systems, data pipelines, or GPU-backed workloads.
• 3+ years of experience working on game development tools and experience with Unreal Engine.
• Proficiency in Go, C++, and C#; familiarity with Java and TypeScript.
• Knowledge of public cloud technologies such as AWS RDS, S3, and EC2.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience, with strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Digital Asset Management systems.
• Experience creating Unreal Engine 5 tools.
• Experience building desktop applications.
• Product sense, pragmatism, and player empathy in technical decision-making.

Culture & Benefits

• Open paid time off policy and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for employees, spouses or domestic partners, and children.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Collaborative environment focused on player-first decision-making and inclusion.