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Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - Game Tech Group, AI Foundations

Riot Games
Los Angeles, CA, USAMercer Island, WA, USA
Posted 6 hours ago
Last seen 6 hours ago
Active
full-time
AI Foundations

Job Summary

Lead the future of AI at Riot Games as a Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering, guiding a team of managers and ICs to build and scale production ML systems. Drive technical strategy and foster a high-performance culture, directly impacting player experiences across all Riot titles.

About this job

As the Senior Manager, ML Engineering for AI Foundations, you will lead engineering managers and senior individual contributors, owning the group's mid-term technical and capability roadmap. You will ensure coherent engineering practice, drive delivery against strategic commitments, and build a strong ML engineering culture. This servant-leadership role focuses on enabling frontline managers and senior ICs, partnering with game studios and central teams to address AI adoption challenges.

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 managing managers or team leads. Track record of building engineering culture by enabling the people around you. - Evidence of shipping production ML systems that other teams depend on, with real operational weight. Working knowledge of model serving, CI/CD for ML, observability, and cost tradeoffs even if you're not writing code daily. - Experience translating technical vision into a roadmap your teams executed against, with evidence of course-correcting when priorities shifted. - Strong collaboration across ML, platform, product, and game development teams; track record of alignment across org boundaries. Experience making AI accessible to teams without deep ML expertise.

Benefits & Perks

- Open paid time off policy. - Flexible work schedules. - Medical, dental, and life insurance. - Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children. - 401k with company match.

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