Job Application for Principal Data Scientist, ML Bots - Game Tech Group

Job Application for Principal Data Scientist, ML Bots - Game Tech Group at Riot Games Principal Data Scientist, ML Bots - Game Tech Group at Riot Games(View all jobs) Los Angeles, USA At AI Foundations, our mission is to unlock cutting edge player experiences through the power of ML and AI technologies. Within this space, the AI Foundry team partners with teams across Riot to accelerate the development and deployment of new machine learning & AI systems. We dive into diverse, high impact projects across Riot, and help take them from ideas to fully fledged features. As a Principal Data Scientist specializing in applied machine learning, you will lead the modeling strategy for our most ambitious applications of Game Understanding Agents in a deeply technical role. You'll elevate the technical standards in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and simulation-based training for game AI by mentoring engineers on the ML Bots team. Your contributions to Riot’s shared game AI frameworks will accelerate development across multiple games and you'll build strong cross-disciplinary partnerships to achieve these goals. You and your team will develop and deploy in-game Game AI capabilities that significantly enhance the player and developer experience, creating reusable training and evaluation pipelines for Game Understanding Agents that support multiple game genres and adapt to each title’s unique constraints. You will support the team in combining modern ML with deep game domain knowledge to create autonomous agents that can play, understand, and adapt like real players. Responsibilities: - Represent the ML Bots team in multi-game forums and contribute to shared frameworks for autonomous agent development. - Collaborate with game and platform engineers, along with UX teams, to integrate models into production systems in ways that enhance player experience and maintain operational reliability. - Mentor senior and staff-level ML engineers in advanced ML for game