Senior Data & AI Engineer, Enterprise Platform

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare plans

Family care

Paid time off

Retirement match

Play Fund

Donation matching

Job summary

Riot Games in Los Angeles seeks a Staff Data and AI Engineer to build governed data foundations powering analytics and AI. You’ll design data pipelines in Databricks, curate data models, and ship AI-enabled products with robust security and observability.

As a hands-on data and software engineer, you’ll own from architecture to production ops, partnering with enterprise stakeholders, and shaping semantic models in Unity Catalog for scalable enterprise solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.
• Hands-on Databricks experience including Unity Catalog and medallion architecture.
• Proficiency in Python and core software engineering practices.
• Experience shipping production AI solutions (retrieval-augmented or agentic).
• Experience with GCP or AWS data services and dbt.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate production data pipelines in Databricks across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers with lineage and logging.
• Define and evolve domain models in Unity Catalog with SMEs.
• Own data quality, tests, monitoring, and alerting for pipelines and products.
• Develop production agents and retrieval-augmented applications grounded in governed data.
• Apply engineering best practices: testing, reviews, CI/CD, and on-call support.
• Collaborate with enterprise systems through APIs, events, and middleware.

Skills

Python

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Medallion Architecture

LLM / AI platforms

Data engineering

Data governance

CI/CD

Observability

APIs / integration

Model serving

LangChain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent

Tools

Vertex AI

OpenAI

Mosaic AI

dbt

Kubernetes

Job description

Riot Games in Los Angeles seeks a Staff Data and AI Engineer to build governed data foundations powering analytics and AI. You’ll design data pipelines in Databricks, curate data models, and ship AI-enabled products with robust security and observability.

As a hands-on data and software engineer, you’ll own from architecture to production ops, partnering with enterprise stakeholders, and shaping semantic models in Unity Catalog for scalable enterprise solutions.