Senior LLM Researcher for Game AI Agents

L&Q OASIS LIMITED; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Tencent Lightspeed Studios seeks a researcher to develop agents based on large language models for live game environments. You will collaborate with design and engineering teams to optimize latency, cost, and player experience while advancing LLM reasoning, planning, tool-use, and memory.

PhD in CS preferred; strong ML/NLP foundation; publications in ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/EMNLP/ACL are a plus; proficiency in at least one programming language is required.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in Computer Science preferred with NLP/LLM focus.
• Strong background in machine learning foundations and NLP-related projects.
• Proficient in at least one programming language.
• Publications in top AI/NLP conferences (ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, ACL) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop agents based on large language models for live game environments.
• Collaborate with game designers and engineers to ensure latency, cost, and player experience requirements are met.
• Research cutting-edge techniques in LLM reasoning, planning, tool-use, and memory and apply to game agent scenarios.

Skills

NLP foundations

ML concepts

Programming language

Education

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Programming languages

Job description

Tencent Lightspeed Studios seeks a researcher to develop agents based on large language models for live game environments. You will collaborate with design and engineering teams to optimize latency, cost, and player experience while advancing LLM reasoning, planning, tool-use, and memory.

PhD in CS preferred; strong ML/NLP foundation; publications in ICML/NeurIPS/ICLR/EMNLP/ACL are a plus; proficiency in at least one programming language is required.