Senior Multimodal AI Researcher for Games

Tencent; Singapore; On-site; SGD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightspeed Studios is seeking a Senior Researcher in multi-modality to shape the next generation of multimodal foundation models and agentic AI for gaming. You will probe multimodal understanding, post-training, and agent research, translating game scenarios into deployable AI solutions.

You will collaborate with engineers to scale prototypes, publish in top venues, and advance research that benefits Tencent's gaming products.

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, ML, or related field, or equivalent research experience.
• Expertise in multimodal understanding and vision-language reasoning; LLM/VLM training.
• Ability to abstract research problems from gaming/business contexts and deploy solutions.
• First-author publications at leading venues (NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ACL).
• Strong implementation skills in ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Pioneer new research directions in multimodal understanding and agent planning for gaming contexts.
• Abstract research problems from game business scenarios and land deployable solutions.
• Advance multimodal model understanding across images, video, text, and audio.
• Lead post-training methodologies (SFT, RLHF/RLAIF, reward modeling).
• Design and execute end-to-end experiments from data to deployment.
• Collaborate with engineers to productionize research prototypes at scale.
• Publish at top-tier conferences and contribute to the research community.

Skills

Multimodal understanding & vision-lang

LLM/VLM post-training

Reinforcement learning & agents

Representation learning

Experiment design & analysis

Research publication track record

Strong ML framework skills

Education

PhD in CS/ML or related field

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

Job description

Lightspeed Studios is seeking a Senior Researcher in multi-modality to shape the next generation of multimodal foundation models and agentic AI for gaming. You will probe multimodal understanding, post-training, and agent research, translating game scenarios into deployable AI solutions.

You will collaborate with engineers to scale prototypes, publish in top venues, and advance research that benefits Tencent's gaming products.