About the job
Riot Games is seeking a Staff Research Scientist to join the Technology Research team. This position is available in Los Angeles, Mercer Island, or Redwood City. The focus is on advancing machine learning, artificial intelligence, experimental design, and systems engineering to improve player experiences across Riot’s games.
Key responsibilities
- Research and develop world models, learned representations that can understand, predict, and simulate complex game environments.
- Create models that capture the structure and dynamics of Riot’s games, including state changes, player actions, and the impact of design updates.
- Lead applied research to support scalable simulations for agent training, automated game balancing, synthetic data generation, and new language-driven game interactions.
- Build prototypes that turn advances in predictive simulation, latent state representation, and environment modeling into practical tools for game teams.
- Work directly with game teams to ensure research addresses real gameplay needs.
- Collaborate with colleagues across Technology Research to integrate world models into game AI and natural language processing projects.
About the Technology Research team
This group specializes in applied research aimed at accelerating the creation of standout player experiences. The team values hands-on experimentation and works closely with game developers to bring research breakthroughs into actual gameplay.
