Principal ML Platform Engineer — Global Scale & Integrations

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 292,000 - 438,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Open PTO

Job summary

Riot Games, headquartered in Los Angeles, seeks a Principal AI/ML Platform Engineer for League of Legends. You will set ML platform strategy, drive tooling and operational standards, and empower teams to deploy and operate player-facing ML experiences at global scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with data, design, and product teams, and influence product strategy. This role emphasizes craft expertise and a player-centric mindset within Riot's game ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, incl. 5+ years building production ML platforms or MLOps.
• Experience leading platforms or systems adopted across multiple teams or products.
• Background in cloud-native orchestration and large-scale design applied globally.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI/ML workflow and MLOps for League of Legends; set automation standards and self-healing pipelines.
• Design scalable AI/ML serving architectures with minimal operational intervention.
• Lead ML feature platform development with data engineering to scale processing and latency.

Skills

10+ years software engineering

5+ years ML platform/MLOps

Kubernetes

GPU scheduling

Cloud-native systems

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

GPU scheduling

Container orchestration

Cloud-native orchestration

MLOps tooling

Job description

Riot Games, headquartered in Los Angeles, seeks a Principal AI/ML Platform Engineer for League of Legends. You will set ML platform strategy, drive tooling and operational standards, and empower teams to deploy and operate player-facing ML experiences at global scale.

You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with data, design, and product teams, and influence product strategy. This role emphasizes craft expertise and a player-centric mindset within Riot's game ecosystem.