Staff Data & AI Engineer — Enterprise Analytics

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

Benefits offered by this job

Open PTO

Flexible work schedules

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Life insurance

Parental leave

401k with company match

Job summary

Riot Games seeks a Staff Data and AI Engineer to build governed data foundations powering analytics, automation, and applied AI. You will design and operate production data pipelines in Databricks, define semantic models in Unity Catalog, and build agents and retrieval-augmented apps on this data.

You will own systems from architecture to production, applying engineering, data quality, security, and observability best practices. Collaboration with SMEs is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, software or application engineering or related enterprise tech role.
• Hands-on experience building production data pipelines (ingestion, modeling, data quality, lineage).
• Hands-on Databricks experience (Unity Catalog, medallion architecture, Mosaic AI or model serving).
• Hands-on experience shipping production AI solutions (retrieval-augmented, conversational, or agentic).
• Proficiency in Python and strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, CI/CD, deployment, production support).
• Experience integrating enterprise systems via APIs/events/middleware (auth, retries, reconciliation, auditability).
• Experience with LLM or cloud AI platform (Vertex AI, Anthropic, OpenAI) and automation platforms (Workato, n8n, Camunda).
• Working knowledge of data governance, privacy, and security for production data pipelines/products.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate data pipelines in Databricks across bronze/silver/gold with lineage and access controls.
• Define semantic models in Unity Catalog with SMEs and curate reliable data products.
• Own data quality with tests, monitoring, and alerting to catch issues early.
• Develop production agents and retrieval-augmented apps using Databricks data and Mosaic AI.
• Ensure security, auditing, and governance in all data and AI workflows.
• Apply engineering fundamentals: automated tests, code reviews, CI/CD, docs, on-call support.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Medallion architecture

AI/ML

CI/CD

Testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Mosaic AI

Model serving

Job description

Riot Games seeks a Staff Data and AI Engineer to build governed data foundations powering analytics, automation, and applied AI. You will design and operate production data pipelines in Databricks, define semantic models in Unity Catalog, and build agents and retrieval-augmented apps on this data.

You will own systems from architecture to production, applying engineering, data quality, security, and observability best practices. Collaboration with SMEs is essential.