Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering (Gamedev): Leading a group of teams focused on anti-cheat operations and developing ML-powered solutions to enhance them with an accent on modeling, warehousing, and engineering across anti-cheat. Focus on converting product priorities into technical strategies, optimizing data team compositions, and contributing to projects on a technical level.

Location: Los Angeles, USA

Company

Riot Games is dedicated to creating games and experiences that make it better to be a player.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain AI/ML pipelines to create adaptive classifiers.
• Leverage and upgrade Riot’s centralized ML infrastructure.
• Innovate in anomaly detection using novel modeling approaches.
• Drive AI/ML pipeline development and deployment standards across teams.
• Manage individual contributors and team-level managers, including Data Engineers, Data Analysts, and ML Engineers.
• Evaluate team composition and proactively allocate resources.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of industry experience, including experience as a Senior ML Engineer or higher.
• 4+ years of management experience, including experience managing managers or team leads.
• Evidence of shipping ML systems that other teams or products depend on.
• Experience translating a technical vision into a roadmap.
• Working knowledge of production ML systems.
• Comfort representing ML capabilities in cross-disciplinary forums.
• History of working at the boundary between research and production.

Nice to have

• Experience building iterative machine classifiers for behavioral anomalies in competitive video games.
• Hands-on experience in threat detection for risk, fraud, insurance, security, sports, or gaming spaces.
• Passion for player experience, games, or creative technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Focus on work/life balance with open paid time off and flexible work schedules.
• Medical, dental, and life insurance.
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children.
• 401k with company match.