Senior ML Engineering Lead — MLOps & Production Systems

Warmada; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Parental leave for you and family

401k with company match

Job summary

Riot Games, Inc. in Los Angeles seeks a Senior Manager, ML Engineering to lead the ML Engineering team building and operating machine learning systems powering League of Legends, including player-facing experiences and developer-facing tools for recommendations, behavior modeling, matchmaking, and experimentation-driven personalization.

You will own the end-to-end ML lifecycle from data pipelines to deployment, ensure scalability and reliability, and partner with product and production leaders

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years building and operating large-scale software systems with production ML.
• Strong CS fundamentals: design, data structures, algorithms.
• Experience with Java, C++, Python in large-scale production environments.
• Deep knowledge of MLOps: model lifecycle, experimentation, monitoring, deployment at scale.
• Experience collaborating across multiple teams, departments, and disciplines to create solutions.
• Experience with project planning and guiding investment strategies across people, platforms, and systems.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of engineers, drive performance, develop leaders, and ensure strong delivery.
• Define and socialize an engineering vision with cross-functional leaders to align with goals.
• Contribute to budgeting, recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and performance management.
• Set direction for MLOps across the ML product lifecycle to improve quality and reliability.
• Collaborate with LoL PC partners to deliver scalable, high-impact ML-powered solutions.
• Foster effective communication within engineering teams and across departments.
• Support craft standards across Riot's MLE groups and drive improvements.
• Stay current with industry trends in ML and MLOps and guide pragmatic adoption.

Skills

Java

C++

Python

MLOps

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Riot Games, Inc. in Los Angeles seeks a Senior Manager, ML Engineering to lead the ML Engineering team building and operating machine learning systems powering League of Legends, including player-facing experiences and developer-facing tools for recommendations, behavior modeling, matchmaking, and experimentation-driven personalization.

You will own the end-to-end ML lifecycle from data pipelines to deployment, ensure scalability and reliability, and partner with product and production leaders