Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist, Anti-Cheat

Riot Games; Los Angeles (CA); In loco; USD 229.000 - 320.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Open paid time off policy

Flexible work schedules

Medical, dental, and life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Descrizione del lavoro

Riot Games seeks a Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist for its Anti-Cheat group to build machine learning driven detection systems that identify cheaters and abuse across Riot’s games. You’ll partner with game product, engineering, and insights teams to ensure safe and fair environments while delivering scalable solutions.

You will help set technical direction, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end ML initiatives from research to production, reporting to the Senior Manager of Anti-Cheat Data and

Competenze

• 6+ years of experience delivering ML systems in production.
• 3+ years in applied modeling or ML research roles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated history delivering impactful ML solutions for critical business problems.
• Product owner mindset to identify opportunities and productionize them.
• Mentoring engineers across roles and levels.

Mansioni

• Design, train, and deploy real-time ML models to detect gameplay anomalies and cheats.
• Build scalable inference pipelines evaluating millions of actions per second.
• Collaborate with anti-cheat engineers to identify new cheat techniques and feature signals.
• Establish ML Ops practices with automated retraining and monitoring.
• Analyze high-dimensional player data to minimize false positives and ensure fairness.
• Balance enforcement with smooth player experiences in collaboration with game teams.
• Help optimize ETL pipelines for data flow and processing.
• Set technical direction within Anti-Cheat ML.

Conoscenze

ML systems

Production ML

Cross-functional

Mentoring

Product ownership

Communication

Deliver ML solutions

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS/ML/Statistics

Strumenti

MySQL

PostgreSQL

ElasticSearch

HDFS

S3

Descrizione del lavoro

Riot Games seeks a Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist for its Anti-Cheat group to build machine learning driven detection systems that identify cheaters and abuse across Riot’s games. You’ll partner with game product, engineering, and insights teams to ensure safe and fair environments while delivering scalable solutions.

You will help set technical direction, mentor engineers, and own end-to-end ML initiatives from research to production, reporting to the Senior Manager of Anti-Cheat Data and