As a Technical Artist focused on Tools/Pipeline, you’ll employ your expert-level knowledge of 3D tools and problem-solving skills to build tools, maintain pipelines and provide technical support for artists on their most critical missions. You will critique work, mentor fellow Rioters and foster the long-term growth of an ambitious group of artists. 

As a Principal Technical Artist on an unpublished R&D product, you will architect and lead the end-to-end art production pipeline for an upcoming title moving from prototype through release. You will build best-in-class, scalable art workflows that empower internal teams and external partners to deliver high-quality assets with speed, consistency, and performance integrity. This role sits at the intersection of Art, Engineering, and Design, and is accountable for ensuring that art pipelines are performant, production-ready, and built for scale. You will report directly to the Director of Game Production.

Responsibilities:

• Architect and maintain scalable art production pipelines across Character, Animation, Environment, UI, and VFX.
• Define and uphold technical standards for asset creation, integration, and optimization for game performance.
• Build tools, scripts, and automation that improve iteration speed and production reliability.
• Develop rigging systems and DCC workflows (Maya or equivalent) that integrate cleanly into Unreal.
• Establish clear asset specs and onboarding documentation for external partners.
• Implement validation systems and quality gates to ensure assets meet performance and visual standards.
• Partner with Engineering on engine workflows, shaders, runtime performance, and build stability.
• Collaborate with Art and Design to translate creative goals into scalable technical solutions.
• Identify pipeline bottlenecks and resolve production risks ahead of milestones.
• Support artists hands-on while continuously improving workflows.
• Ensure art systems are stable and performant throughout the product life cycle.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Art or Pipeline Engineering in game development.
• Proven experience building and scaling production-ready art pipelines through release.
• Strong expertise in game engines (i.e. Unreal Engine), including asset workflows and performance profiling.
• Advanced proficiency in Maya (or comparable DCC tools), including rigging and export workflows.
• Strong programming skills in Python and proficiency in C++ and/or C#.
• Experience supporting external vendors or distributed development teams.
• Experience with version control systems (such as Perforce and git)

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building automated asset validation and CI-integrated tooling.
• Experience transitioning projects from prototype to full production.
• Background in both hands-on rigging/tool development and high-level pipeline strategy.
• Experience shipping at least one game through late production and launch.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

ML engineers at Riot own the full lifecycle of machine learning in production - from problem framing through model design, deployment, and operation - building systems that serve players at global scale.  They work across disciplines with engineers, data scientists, designers, and product teams to turn ML capabilities into player-facing experiences and tools for making great games.

As a Staff Applied Modeling Engineer on an unpublished R&D product, you will lead the modeling strategy for the team - establishing architecture patterns, setting standards, and continuing to design solutions for the highest-complexity problems directly.  Your work will span multi-month efforts and across multiple disciplines, shaping how the team (and Riot) approach applied ML.  You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Tech Foundations team within an R&D game project.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with designers, artists, and other engineers to discover and conceptualize opportunities for AI-powered workflow enhancements
• Establish AI/ML architecture patterns within the project and design solutions for high-complexity problems; guide solution design considering integration and operational constraints
• Refine modeling and feature invention strategy for the project; improve architecture trade-offs, signal extraction techniques, and quality standards for complex data sources
• Refine multi-model system design and model optimization; improve interaction analysis, dependency management, and performance evaluation techniques
• Establish pipeline architecture patterns within the project, aligning with Riot’s shared tech ecosystem; guide workflow design and deployment automation; set reliability standards
• Establish research-to-production practices in partnership with research scientists; balance cutting-edge techniques with production reliability
• Elevate the team’s expertise in advanced AI/ML methods for game development through mentorship and documentation, and contribute to team health through cross-disciplinary collaboration; level up developers across discipline

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
• 6+ years of experience delivering ML systems in production, including 3+ years in applied modeling or ML research roles
• Evidence that your modeling choices have been adopted beyond your immediate team - whether through reusable patterns, shared architectures, or influence on how others approach problems
• History of working with complex or unconventional data sources where off-the-shelf feature engineering doesn’t apply
• Experience in production environments with interacting models, feedback loops, or systems where model behavior has downstream consequences beyond a single prediction
• Comfort with ambiguity - you’ve shipped in situations where the success metric, the right approach, or both were unclear at the start.
• Track record mentoring engineers across roles and levels; evidence of raising the bar for people around you.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Passion for player experience, games, or creative technology
• Proficiency in C++

Desired Qualifications:

• Background in reinforcement learning, imitation learning, generative models, or simulation-based training in interactive environments
• Familiarity with ML platform components (model serving, feature stores, ML observability)
• Experience working in a AAA game engine (i.e. Unreal)
• Experience building multiplayer games
• Experience implementing tools for game designers and/or artists
• Experience mentoring technical ICs and contributing to engineering culture

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

At Riot, we believe in delivering player-focused experiences that push the boundaries of what games can be. The Sydney-based team contributes to a new Unpublished R&D Product in collaboration with partners in North America, with a focus on building the technical foundations that enable great player and developer experiences. By encouraging collaboration, you’ll drive development, smashing through obstacles and driving products into players’ hands.

Producers at Riot lead complex initiatives from conception through delivery, aligning teams around clear goals and enabling predictable, high-quality outcomes.

As a Technical Producer II on an Unpublished R&D Product you will support a technology team, you'll lead the coordination and delivery of engineering-focused initiatives that improve performance, support build processes, and enable game features at scale. You'll work across time zones to align stakeholders, manage development pipelines, and ensure that the team is set up for success at every stage of project development. You’ll report to a Senior Manager, Game Production.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the day-to-day production efforts for a cross-functional engineering and technical art team
• Drive sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and milestone execution
• Ensure strong team health, culture, and efficiency
• Collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and align on goals
• Track progress, manage risks, and ensure delivery of high-quality tools and features
• Promote best practices in planning, estimation, and documentation
• Coordinate across teams to unblock dependencies and align technical solutions
• Communicate clearly and consistently with partners in multiple time zones
• Identify opportunities to improve developer workflows and system scalability

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Producer, Project Manager or similar role in software or game development
• Ample experience working with cross-functional and distributed teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience leading teams through all feature development phases (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
• Experience applying Agile and Lean development processes such as Scrum or Kanban

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with the video game industry. A background in digital project management/Agile project management/Scrum Master in a technology setting will also be considered 
• Experience working with teams building engine capabilities, internal tooling or gameplay features
• Mastery of production tools like Jira to track development and create accurate reporting

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team collaborates globally to build next-generation game features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. Whether it’s backend systems, client features, performance tooling, or player-facing experiences, we create the infrastructure and features that shape player and developer satisfaction.

As a Software Engineer II, you will contribute to the development of metagame systems and features that power a new R&D gameplay experience. You'll work in a cross-functional team alongside producers, designers, and other engineers, helping define and deliver solutions that are scalable, performant, and tailored to enhance player experiences outside of gameplay.

Responsibilities:

• Uphold a high standard of engineering excellence
• Design, build, and maintain software systems with a focus on quality, reliability, and maintainability.
• Collaborate with designers, producers, and other engineers to scope, implement, and test features.
• Participate in code reviews, write unit/integration tests, and contribute to continuous improvement of team practices.
• Debug and resolve issues in live environments and development pipelines.
• Write clear documentation and communicate technical details across disciplines.
• Learn and contribute to shared libraries, tools, and platforms used across the project.

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years experience in professional software development
• Professional experience and proficiency with C++
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency, etc.)
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating across disciplines
• Experience building games and/or working in game engines

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and/or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of social systems, Unreal view models or Unreal Online Subsystems
• Experience developing UI or metagame systems for Unreal Engine games
• Professional experience building large scale backend systems or game services
• Experience with perforce and/or github version control systems

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we put players first. Our Sydney-based team is partnering globally to build next-generation game features and technology on an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. Whether it's social systems, personalization, store integrations, or core engine features, our teams are focused on delivering seamless, performant, and player-delighting experiences.

At Riot, we believe “Quality” is more than the defect discovery process. For us, it’s a set of values, practices, and behaviors that inform every part of the development process. By honing our quality craft and developing strong cross-discipline partnerships we are improving our capacity to rapidly bring outstanding experiences to our players while reaching ever higher degrees of product integrity.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you’ll help shape the quality strategy and execution for a feature team on a new and Unpublished R&D title. You will embed with developers, designers, and producers to champion quality throughout the development lifecycle—from early planning to hands-on testing to metrics-driven validation. Your work will ensure our tools, systems, and player experiences are both reliable and delightful.

This role is based in Sydney, Australia. You’ll report to an Manager, Software Engineering supporting the R&D Game Team. Internal Job Title: QA Engineer II. 

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to a quality-first mindset across the development team, advocating for scalable testing and clear quality goals.
• Design, implement, and execute test plans, charters, and test cases across game features, tools, and backend systems.
• Help define quality metrics and use data to inform risk management, release readiness, and product confidence.
• Identify opportunities to improve pipelines, workflows, and test coverage.
• Partner with engineers to investigate issues and triage defects.
• Coordinate testing with offsite or vendor QA teams and provide structured feedback.
• Serve as the voice of the player by representing end-user expectations and ensuring experiential integrity.

Required Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of experience in software or game QA roles.
• Demonstrated experience in test planning, execution, and reporting.
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, design, and production functions.
• Ability to discuss and review technical implementation details with engineers.
• Experience coordinating with distributed testing resources and evaluating test effectiveness.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with QA tooling such as Jira, TestRail, or custom reporting dashboards.
• Experience testing complex services or engine systems, ideally in games or interactive applications.
• Understanding of version control workflows (e.g., Git, Perforce).
• Certifications in software testing (e.g., ISTQB Foundation, BBST, Agile Testing).
• Prior experience working in Unreal Engine or with telemetry/performance test tools.
• Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Working closely with Riot teams globally, Riot Sydney is a powerhouse of talent, and experts in global development. Our team works on VALORANT, League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics, alongside exciting R&D and Tech projects.

If you believe that the Player Experience comes first, we want to hear from you. Our players are a diverse group from different backgrounds, and we want to see that reflected in the people who make our games, all qualified applicants will be considered for employment

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

Riot Games fosters a player and workplace experience that values teamwork embodied by the Summoner's Code and Community Code. Our culture embraces differences as a strength, and our values are the guiding principles for how we approach work. We are committed to putting diversity and inclusion (D&I) at the center of everything we do, and promoting a fair and collaborative culture where Rioters treat one another with dignity and respect. We encourage you to read more about our value of thriving together and our ongoing work to build the most inclusive company in Gaming.

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team works closely with teams across the globe to build next-generation features and technology for an exciting Unpublished R&D Title. Whether contributing to backend architecture, developer-facing tools, or player-focused features, we craft the systems that drive performance, scalability, and engagement.

As a Staff Software Engineer (Internal Job Title: Software Engineer III), you’ll take technical ownership of key areas within our workstreams. You’ll contribute across the development lifecycle — designing scalable solutions, mentoring teammates, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure that player and developer experiences meet a high quality bar. 

As Software Engineers at Riot, we bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas and also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. We work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value. You will report to an Engineering Manager supporting the R&D Game Team.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and development of scalable, performant systems.
• Drive technical discussions and decision-making across gameplay, engine, or tooling components.
• Collaborate with producers, designers, QA, and fellow engineers to scope, implement, and test game features.
• Champion engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and maintainable architecture.
• Debug complex issues in development and live environments, with a player-first mindset.
• Contribute to team health through mentorship, documentation, and cross-disciplinary collaboration.
• Proactively identify technical risks and bottlenecks, proposing pragmatic and innovative solutions.
• Give feedback to product leaders about product direction and player affinity.
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience delivering live or shipped products.
• Expert proficiency with C++ and deep knowledge of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, concurrency).
• Experience building systems in a cross-functional team and contributing to cross-team architecture discussions.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in both development and live environments.
• Ability to write clear, maintainable code and communicate technical concepts effectively across disciplines.
• Experience building games.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with Unreal Engine.
• Familiarity with systems such as multiplayer frameworks, performance tooling, build pipelines, or telemetry.
• Experience with version control systems like Perforce or Git.
• Prior experience working on global-scale game development or online services.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

The Technical Art Director is responsible for ensuring our content creation ecosystem is efficient, scalable and built to support both creative excellence and production realities. As part of the Technical Art team, this role establishes the pipelines, tools and foundational workflows that enable our teams to deliver the game to players. The Technical Art Director continuously evaluates and improves workflows, pipelines, tools and processes so teams can create high quality content with speed and confidence, bringing expert-level knowledge of 3D content creation and problem-solving to drive best practices across asset production.

As Director, Technical Art in R&D, you are the Art Director’s primary technical partner. Working closely with Engineering, you will own the technical health of content creation across the game. You are responsible for solving the most complex content-related technical challenges by breaking them into clear, executable solutions, building the right team to deliver against milestones, and ensuring our workflows scale as the project grows. You champion forward-looking tools and technologies that meaningfully support product goals, including identifying when new expertise is required and hiring specialists to meet those needs. You know how to translate an ambitious art vision into performant, sustainable systems that ship to players.

Responsibilities:

Pipeline, Workflow and Technical Strategy

• Own the vision, standards and execution of content creation workflows and pipelines across Characters, Environments, VFX, UI, SFX and Cinematics
• Continuously evaluate tools, processes and pipelines to surface inefficiencies and drive improvements that increase iteration speed and reliability
• Ensure artistic ambition is supported by efficient, scalable and sustainable solutions that meet memory and performance requirements
• Partner with Engineering to ensure all solutions align with development standards and technical best practices
• Evaluate when to leverage existing Riot technical art solutions versus building new technology to meet project needs

Technology Leadership and Innovation

• Identify opportunities to apply new tools, procedural approaches, and automation to improve workflow efficiency and unlock creative potential
• Champion future-facing technologies that align with the project vision and production realities
• Define and maintain a technical art roadmap that supports current milestones and long-term sustainability

Team Leadership and Discipline Growth

• Build, lead and mentor technical artists and technical art leads, with clear accountability for growth and career development
• Establish staffing plans and ensure appropriate allocation of technical artists across teams to meet product goals
• Partner with project leadership and recruiting to grow the technical art discipline utilizing a mixture of internal and external resources
• Collaborate with other Technical Art Directors to align on shared standards and a cohesive vision across the studio

Hands-On Contribution and Collaboration

• Contribute as an individual contributor on select high-impact tools and pipeline initiatives
• Work directly with artists and other clients to gather requirements and validate solutions
• Ensure artists and technical artists have the tools, support and guidance needed to succeed

Required Qualifications: 

• 13+ years of professional experience as a technical artist
• 5+ years of professional experience managing other technical artists
• Expertise with Maya, scripting in Python, and modern game engines
• Experience with and commitment to building long-term maintainable, testable, portable, and stable systems
• Experience building strategic visions and pipelines, and working within cross team leadership 
• Highly proficient communication skills and capacity to act as an ambassador between art and engineering
• Superb critical thinking skills, particularly as it pertains to translating artistic requirements to sustainable workflow design

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing tools and systems using C++, HLSL, or scripting frameworks (e.g. Blueprints or Python)
• Strong understanding of 3D math and computer graphics
• Leading pipeline development for a live game 

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot Engineers bring deep technical expertise while embracing cross-disciplinary collaboration to deliver meaningful player experiences. As a Software Engineer III focused on Meta Systems, you will build and evolve the systems that shape a player’s journey outside of moment-to-moment gameplay — including progression, social features, quests, customization, and long-term engagement systems.

As a Staff Software Engineer on an unpublished R&D product, you will design and deliver robust metagame systems that connect gameplay, player identity, and progression. You will partner closely with design, UX, production, Services, and Foundations teams to implement scalable, maintainable systems that are performant in-engine and resilient across client-service and engine boundaries. You will independently own features from technical design through production readiness, ensuring high-quality execution in a live service environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design and independently drive the implementation of large-scale metagame systems (progression, social features, quests, customization) from technical design through high-quality execution and polish.
• Collaborate closely with Services and Foundations teams to integrate Meta systems with core backend and central services capabilities, ensuring scalable architecture and seamless persistence across client-service and engine boundaries.
• Develop clean, extensible C++ systems within Unreal Engine, emphasizing maintainability and performance, and translate UX specifications into functional in-game UI implementations.
• Build and maintain robust Unreal Editor tooling to empower designers and content creators to author and tune Meta systems efficiently.
• Ensure the long-term health and stability of the live service by proactively identifying and addressing technical debt, architectural gaps, and complex issues spanning client, engine, and backend systems.
• Elevate engineering quality across the team through active participation in code reviews and design discussions, and by mentoring junior engineers on best practices for C++ development and large-scale system integration.

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Professional experience developing gameplay systems in Unreal Engine using C++
• Experience building or extending Unreal Editor tooling and workflows
• Experience implementing in-game UI systems based on UX or product specifications
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals (data structures, algorithms, object-oriented design, concurrency)
• Experience collaborating effectively within cross-functional teams including design, UX, and production
• Experience integrating client gameplay systems with backend or platform services

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building progression, social, or player customization systems
• Experience integrating gameplay systems with Player Platform or shared service ecosystems
• Familiarity with Unreal systems such as UMG, MVVM/ViewModels, Data Assets, Online Subsystems, or other foundational engine frameworks
• Experience working on or shipping a live multiplayer or online game
• Experience supporting post-launch feature iteration and live ops updates
• Experience building data-driven systems that empower non-engineering content authors

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As Engineering Managers, we gain organizational alignment by building a strong engineering vision and offering creative solutions to organizational design. We also serve as mentors for a team of engineers, overseeing their performance and trying to find stretch opportunities for their growth while maintaining a focus on results.

As a Senior Manager, Software Engineering within Riot Discovery Studio, you will report to the Tech Director on an unpublished R&D product, directing internal and external teams of engineers to support product exploration, integrate, and extend critical backend technologies, and scale our technology to meet the needs of a live Riot title. You will be accountable for all technical decisions of your teams’ focus areas and help shape the product. In addition to leading the team, you will be hands-on in implementation, at least initially.

Responsibilities:

• Define the engineering strategy and technical roadmap to develop our global backend infrastructure with an understanding of our audience and product goals
• Manage and scale multiple engineering teams to support product needs through pre-production, production and post-launch
• Partner with product and delivery as they define product features and product roadmap
• Collaborate and coordinate with Riot Central technology teams to efficiently deliver world-class solutions
• Direct development and manage performance of external engineering teams in other geographies
• Collaborate in technical/architectural discussions, provide direction and drive decision-making
• Drive the planning and execution of engineering work including requirements gathering, technical discovery, technical design, and work breakdown and estimation.
• Directly accountable for the technical success of the team including ownership of our systems and services operating well and in a cost-effective manner in live environments
• Identify, interview, and hire software engineers to support team and Riot hiring goals
• Support engineers with performance management, and career management and development including stretch opportunities for them to grow
• Create a culture of leadership across engineering by seeking different perspectives at all levels to solve problems and contribute ideas

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer 
• 2+ years of game development experience working in various platforms (i.e. mobile, console, PC, etc.)
• 3+ years in a leadership position, working directly on the production of a game as an Engineering Manager
• Experience leading teams through feature development (planning, execution, delivery, post-release support)
• Experience building reliable, scalable, and maintainable backend distributed systems
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle, including shipping one or more products on large code bases that span a range of platforms and tools
• Experience collaborating across non-engineering departments to create solutions
• Experience with Golang or Java

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience developing or managing development of full-stack solutions
• Experience managing co-development or outsourcing relationships
• Experience shipping a game on Unreal Engine
• Experience with build and release pipeline management
• Experience with the pre-production, production, and post-production phases of game development
• Familiarity with modern game platforms and practices

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about the experiences of players, this could be the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team objectives. You’ll drive important features and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Senior Software Engineer (Gameplay Systems & Animation ) on an unpublished R&D product, you will report to the Gameplay Engineering Lead, you’ll help bring our characters to life through responsive, expressive, and high-quality animation systems. You’ll work at the intersection of gameplay engineering and content creation — partnering closely with animators, designers, and technical artists to build scalable systems that power movement, locomotion, and moment-to-moment feel. This role collaborates with multiple groups within the gameplay team, contributing directly to the quality, polish, and performance of our core combat experience. The ideal candidate is passionate about player feel, thrives in cross-disciplinary collaboration, and takes pride in building robust systems that unlock content at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Design, prototype, and implement robust, scalable gameplay and animation systems, evolving underlying systems to improve reuse, polish, maintainability, and performance.
• Contribute to locomotion, movement feel, and animation-driven gameplay systems across multiple gameplay domains.
• Partner closely with animators and technical artists to improve workflows, clarify handoff points, and enable efficient content production.
• Identify technical risks in animation and gameplay systems and collaborate with technical leaders to implement sustainable architectural solutions.
• Contribute to adjacent gameplay domains such as combat systems, camera, VFX integration, or other core gameplay systems as needed.
• Mentor peers across disciplines by sharing insights on animation systems, gameplay feel, and technical problem-solving.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience in game development.
• 3+ years of experience developing or supporting animation systems.
• Strong C++ programming skills and solid computer science fundamentals.
• Experience working with Unreal Engine, including its animation systems.
• Experience implementing gameplay systems closely tied to animation
• Strong debugging, optimization, and performance-tuning skills.
• Experience collaborating effectively in cross-disciplinary teams, with strong product sense and player empathy.

Desired Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Unreal Engine internals and extending or modifying engine animation systems.
• Experience improving content pipelines and animation workflows.
• Exposure to related domains such as gameplay VFX, camera systems, etc.
• Experience working on mid-sized engineering teams in a live or in-development game environment.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

At Riot, we believe in putting players first. Our Sydney-based team contributes to the unpublished R&D Product, collaborating globally to build next-generation features and technology. Whether focused on automation, performance, tools, or build systems, we create the foundations for great developer and player experiences.

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As an Engineering Manager, you’ll predominantly offer creative solutions to organizational design. You’ll also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability. 

As an Engineering Manager and tech lead of Automation & Build Systems on our unpublished MMO, you will drive initiatives and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering, while also overseeing their performance and trying to find stretch opportunities for their growth.

You will work with all team disciplines to design, implement, and iterate on modern game development workflows, pipelines, and automation. You will work in a small team alongside a product lead, technical artists, and other engineers to ensure we can efficiently deliver on our player’s dreams. We’re looking for an engineer experienced in automation and build systems whose work will ensure our MMO consistently delivers a high-quality, dependable experience that players can trust over the long term. The ideal candidate is passionate, driven, and wants to guide the technical vision of how we extend engines and optimize workflows. You will report to an Engineering Manager within R&D.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of 2–6 engineers through all phases of product development.
• Work across time zones to set the technical direction, in partnership with product and discipline leads, driving clarity and alignment on priorities.
• Design and implement solutions for large scale automation and build tooling across a distributed network of servers.
• Lead architecture requirements, technical design, and hands-on implementation across relevant systems, shaping the team’s technical direction and standards.
• Grow the capabilities of the team through coaching, career development, and hiring.
• Foster an engineering culture grounded in player-first, collaboration, inclusion, autonomy and best practices.
• Identify, interview, and hire software engineers to scale the team and ensure consistency in excellence between global teams.
• Work with the Core Tech Engineering Manager in Los Angeles to plan, roadmap and deliver on the needs for content creation, stability, and testing.
• Troubleshoot live service issues as part of an on-call rotation.

Required Qualifications: 

• 6+ years of development experience as a software engineer, including shipping one or more games or products on large code bases that span a range of platforms and tools.
• 2+ years experience directly leading engineering teams as a people manager.
• Proficient in C and C++, with strong debugging skills and a solid foundation in common game and software design patterns.
• Experience developing real-time online multiplayer games using Unreal Engine (or similar engine), with expertise in automation tooling, performance tooling, build pipelines, and/or telemetry.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across multiple disciplines across time-zones, coupled with strong product sense, pragmatic decision-making, and player empathy in technical choices.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Experience developing MMO and/or large scale online games with a focus on game server architecture and automation.
• Experience working with global teams, and working with leadership across time zones.
• Skilled in managing requirements and refining game development pipelines for efficiency and scalability.
• Familiarity with Unreal Engine, including Blueprint visual scripting, and working knowledge of Iris.
• Experience working with mid-sized engineering teams and other disciplines (e.g. Tech Design, UX Design, Production) in an agile environment
• Prior experience working on global-scale game development or online services.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

At Riot we strongly believe in work / life balance, and we encourage that with our open paid time off policy, paid parental leave (for both primary and secondary carers) and flexible work schedules to fit your lifestyle. We also believe that work should be fun, we have co-op gaming areas, a play fund so you can broaden and deepen your knowledge of players and community, and all the snacks you would ever need to power through your day (even healthy snacks!). And that’s not all we offer, there’s also:

• Medical Insurance that covers you and your dependents
• Employee Assistance Program
• Wellness fund
• Donation matching of time and money to registered charities
• Learning and Development opportunities

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

拳头游戏的工程师不仅在特定技术领域具备深厚的专业知识，也同样重视在更广泛、多样化的领域中工作的机会。作为一名软件工程师，您还将深入参与旨在增强团队凝聚力、实现跨团队目标的项目。您将主导游戏玩法功能的开发，并为其他工程师清晰地展示何为卓越的工程实践。

作为研发部门的一名Software Engineer, Gameplay，您将运用自身在游戏玩法技术领域的精深知识，为拳头游戏激动人心的新作注入生命力。您将与产品负责人、设计师、艺术家及其他工程师在团队中紧密合作，共同探索产品的根本性问题，并打造出能将玩家的梦想变为现实的卓越体验。理想的候选人应充满热情、积极主动，并有志于引领该游戏领域的技术愿景。

职责：

• 与策划团队合作，沟通理解产品需求，主导并参与相关系统的需求分析、技术设计及最终实现游戏功能
• 理解策划、美术团队的开发流程，与专业领域的负责人协作识别开发中的瓶颈，规划并交付相关的工具，提高团队开发效率
• 不断迭代和优化解决方案，以确保其稳健性、可扩展性和高性能
• 协助团队确立技术方向与开发标准

必备条件：

• 在游戏行业中有4年以上作为软件工程师的开发经验
• 精通C++或C#
• 参与过至少一个已发布的游戏项目
• 对常见的游戏和软件设计模式有深入理解
• 出色的调试技能
• 在技术决策中具备产品意识、务实态度和玩家同理心

优先条件：

• 拥有2年以上的游戏玩法开发经验
• 具有使用商业引擎（如Unreal或Unity）的经验
• 具备与中型工程团队合作的经验
• 参与过游戏开发的原型设计和前期制作阶段
• 具备敏捷开发经验

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Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll drive important technical initiatives and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.  We work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Tools on an unpublished R&D product, you will architect the foundational elements of the tools ecosystem for one of Riot’s most exciting new games.  You will work closely with designers, artists, producers, and other engineers to gather requirements and set the long-term vision for the team’s developer tooling.  In this role you will be hands-on in conceptualizing, planning, implementing, and maintaining the tools that power content creation workflows and make developers more efficient. You will work with state-of-the-art technology, and explore new solutions to surprise and delight our players as we bring this new game to life.  You will report to the Director of Software Engineering on the team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with leadership on planning and long-term vision for developer tooling and workflows
• Architect and help implement the foundational elements of the game’s tools ecosystem
• Champion the technical vision, architecture, and execution for the tools engineering team with production and management
• Establish the team’s technical direction and best practices for tools architecture and implementation
• Mentor engineers across multiple levels as the team scales, and provide feedback that supports their technical growth
• Collaborate effectively with production, design, art, and other engineering teams to deliver tools that are purpose-driven, robust, and scalable
• Champion tooling best practices across multiple teams including design, tech art, UX, and gameplay engineering
• Review and identify new and shared developer tooling technologies, both internal and external, as possible opportunities for the team
• Provide documentation and trainings on new tools and workflows to internal customers

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience delivering live or shipped products at scale
• 3+ years working on game development tools
• Experience working in various game engines and tools (i.e. Unreal Engine and other upcoming tools from Epic)
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and influence cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• Proficiency in C++

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional experience creating tools in Unreal
• Deep knowledge of tooling solutions utilized in AAA games around the industry
• Experience collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines
• Product sense, pragmatism, and player empathy in making tech decisions
• Experience mentoring technical leaders and contributing to engineering culture

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

As a Senior Technical Artist (Technical Animation), you’ll define and maintain the systems that bring our characters and creatures to life including complex animation state machines, layered interactions, and IK-driven behaviors in our upcoming MMO. Working at the intersection of animation, design, and engineering, you’ll build scalable animation graphs, ensure believable motion, and optimize performance across a vast, dynamic world.

You’ll collaborate with animators, designers, and engineers to develop robust Unreal Engine animation systems that balance scalability, fidelity, and efficiency. As a key bridge between creative intent and technical execution, you’ll drive the evolution of our animation framework and ensure seamless, high-quality integration across the game.

Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain complex animation state machines, layered animation systems, and override logic supporting split-body for player characters, NPCs, creatures, and props.
• Collaborate with animators, character tech artists, and designers to develop efficient, believable, and tech-friendly animation flows.
• Define best practices for animation setup while owning the debuggability, documentation, maintainability, and long-term health of animation blueprints and graphs within Unreal Engine.
• Partner with engineers to build and evolve animation runtime systems and debugging workflows.
• Drive optimization efforts across animation assets and graphs to meet performance and memory targets.
• Collaborate with cross-discipline partners to ensure character systems scale effectively across massive multiplayer environments.
• Develop scalable animation retargeting strategies to support characters and creatures of varying proportions while minimizing animation counts.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional experience as a technical animator or technical artist in games or related industries.
• Deep expertise with Unreal Engine animation workflows, including complex Animation Blueprints, state machines, blend spaces, and layered animation systems.
• Proven experience designing scalable, reusable animation systems for large-scope character setups, including players, NPCs, and creatures.
• Strong art foundation with a deep understanding of animation principles, anatomy, and motion.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across art, design, and engineering disciplines

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience with Unreal Control Rig and Sequencer
• Familiarity with C++ and/or Python within Unreal Engine.
• Expertise in Autodesk Maya for rigging and animation support.
• Experience working with software like Kawaii, Chaos, Havok.
• Prior experience supporting MMO or large-scale games with complex character ecosystems.
• Experience with runtime IK, or motion warping

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

作为一名渲染技术美术师，你的主要职责是支持美术团队进行美术资产原型开发，使他们能够在游戏中实现创作。你将与所有美术部门的艺术家合作，从角色、场景、特效到灯光，确保资产符合技术管线的要求。你将与各个艺术部门紧密协作，参与标准化并优化游戏内资产、材质、着色器和可扩展开发管线的生产流程。

在研发部门担任渲染技术美术师，你将向技术美术负责人汇报，并与技术美术、美术和程序团队合作，构建支持游戏美术风格的材质和着色器。你还将参与灯光和资产优化，同时通过开发工具和管线为美术人员提供支持，帮助他们改进工作流程，减少技术障碍和低效环节。在具备渲染基础的同时，若你在 UE5 Niagara 或 UI 技术美术方向有相关经验，将会是加分项。

职责：

• 维护和制作角色、场景、特效的 Shader 和材质库，支持高质量渲染效果的实现
• 研究风格化及写实渲染流程，协助优化光照及后处理效果，提升整体视觉表现
• 参与渲染管线的定制与优化，负责材质及美术资产的性能优化，并使用 profiling 工具进行分析
• 跟进 UE5 渲染新特性，并在项目中进行合理应用
• 与美术、程序团队协作，确保渲染方案能够有效落地

岗位要求：

• 有游戏项目开发经验
• 3 年及以上相关工作经验
• 熟悉 UE5 渲染，掌握 HLSL、Unreal Material Editor，具备材质开发与优化经验
• 熟悉 DCC 工具及资产制作流程，如 Maya、Photoshop、Substance Designer/Painter
• 对实时光照、着色模型、后处理或风格化渲染有良好理解
• 具备一定的性能优化经验，熟悉 RenderDoc、Unreal Profiler 等工具的基本使用

加分项：

• 熟悉 UE5 Niagara 系统（特效制作或性能优化）
• 有 UI 技术美术相关经验（UMG、UI 材质或 UI 性能优化等）
• 熟悉《英雄联盟》IP 及其美术风格，或了解 Riot Games 其他 IP 风格
• 具备 LookDev 经验，理解色彩理论、相机语言
• 有完整游戏项目上线经验

在提交申请时，请提供作品集或Demo Reel，你可能被要求完成艺术测试。

对于这个岗位，你将通过工艺专业知识、协作精神以及优先考虑玩家乐趣的决策来获得成功。我们将关注您过去的学习、经验以及您与游戏的个人关系。如果您体现了玩家的同理心并关心玩家的体验，这可能就是您的角色！

用工性质：与专业人事服务公司 FESCO Adecco 签订劳动合同

职位概述

作为 3D 动作设计师（Contractor），你将加入我们的美术团队，负责为游戏角色、生物或道具制作高质量的关键帧动画（Keyframe Animation）。
我们需要一位执行力强、基本功扎实的动画师。你不需要负责复杂的动捕数据清洗或底层的动画系统搭建，但你需要能独立承担一个角色或模块的动画量产工作，确保动画在引擎中表现流畅，并符合项目的艺术风格与玩法需求。

你将与玩法策划、技术美术紧密合作，通过动画赋予角色生命力，为玩家提供极致的打击感与操作反馈。

核心职责

• 高质量动画制作： 根据需求文档和分镜，使用 Maya 制作高质量的 3D 角色动画（包括但不限于：待机、移动、战斗技能、受击、死亡等）。
• 风格化表现： 深刻理解并还原项目的艺术风格（例如：美式卡通、强打击感、夸张变形等），确保动作设计符合角色性格（Acting）。
• 引擎集成与调试： 将动画资源导入游戏引擎（如 Unreal/Unity 或自研引擎），配置动画混合树（Blend Trees）、状态机（State Machines）基础设置，并能够在引擎内预览和验收效果。
• 玩法手感打磨： 与玩法策划紧密配合，通过调整动画的节奏（Timing/Spacing）和帧数，优化游戏的操作手感和响应速度（Gameplay Feel）。
• Bug修复与优化： 负责维护和修复现有动画资源中的穿插、滑步、抖动等问题，确保交付资源的稳定性。

任职要求

• 经验要求： 3年以上游戏行业 3D 动画制作经验，至少参与过一款完整的游戏项目开发。
• 专业技能：
• 精通 Autodesk Maya 的动画模块。
• 深刻理解动画 12项基本法则（如挤压拉伸、预备动作、跟随动作等），尤其是在人体力学（Body Mechanics）和重量感表现上有扎实功底。
• 擅长 纯手K（Keyframe） 动画制作，能够处理风格化（Stylized）的角色动态。
• 沟通与协作：
• 具备良好的沟通能力，能够准确理解反馈意见并快速迭代。
• 能够主动与上下游（策划/模型/特效）对齐需求，预判潜在的制作风险。
• 作品集： 必须提供 Demo Reel，展示涵盖肢体运动、战斗动作和表演片段的高质量作品。

加分项 

• 引擎经验： 熟悉 Unreal Engine 或 Unity 的动画蓝图/系统。
• 技术理解： 了解基础的绑定（Rigging）知识，能进行简单的蒙皮（Skinning）修复或给 TA 提供有效的绑定反馈。
• 多风格适应： 既能驾驭写实风格，也能处理夸张卡通风格。

用工性质：与专业人事服务公司FESCO Adecco签订劳动合同.

Services Producers enable teams to deliver reliable, scalable systems that power the player experience across the entire game. By combining strong production fundamentals with operational discipline, they bring clarity, predictability, and accountability to complex service ecosystems. Services Producers work across engineering, live operations, Riot partners, and vendors to ensure foundational services are built, operated, and improved with intent.

As a Senior Technical Producer for Foundational Services & Operations on an unpublished R&D product, you will own production for foundational services that support the entire game. You will operate at the intersection of development and live operations, managing scope, dependencies, and delivery while also owning operational rhythms, incident processes, and service health reviews. This role reports into Foundation Operations Leadership and requires deep experience producing and operating live services at scale.

Responsibilities:

• Own production for foundational core backend services, managing backlogs, scope, schedules, and delivery across multiple engineering teams.
• Drive execution through strong Agile practices, including sprint planning, prioritization, velocity tracking, and dependency management.
• Maintain clear visibility of work through JIRA, ensuring epics, stories, risks, and cross-team dependencies are accurately tracked and actively managed.
• Coordinate feature delivery across internal teams and external partners, balancing capacity, timelines, and operational risk.
• Lead operational review cadences, including preparing agendas, reviewing service health, surfacing risks, and driving follow-up actions to completion.
• Partner with release management to deliver builds across platforms globally
• Own incident management processes for services, including coordination during incidents, clear communication, and post-incident follow-through.
• Facilitate postmortems and retrospectives, translating operational learnings into concrete improvements in systems, tooling, or process.
• Partner closely with Live Operations and Product Support teams to align ownership, workflows, and expectations for service reliability.
• Dig into dashboards, metrics, and logs to understand service health, validate assumptions, and track progress against KPIs and targets.
• Provide clear reporting to Foundation Operations Leadership on delivery status, service health, risks, and operational trends.

Required Qualifications:

• 6+ years of experience producing live services, backend systems, or platform technology in games or large-scale software.
• Proven experience owning production for services that operate at game-wide or platform scale.
• Strong experience running operational reviews and incident management processes in a live environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work with dashboards, KPIs, and operational metrics to guide decision-making.
• Deep familiarity with Agile production practices, including backlog management, estimation, and velocity tracking.
• Extensive experience using JIRA (or similar tools) to manage scope, dependencies, and delivery.
• Ability to coordinate work across multiple teams, disciplines, and external partners.

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting large-scale live service games.
• Familiarity with service monitoring, alerting, and operational tooling.
• Experience working in blended production and live operations roles.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

At Riot, our Audio Teams are dedicated to creating memorable and enduring sonic experiences for players. Sound is a vital element we use to imbue life into our games, cinematics, esports, albums, and various other projects. We are also continuously focused on elevating our team and techniques through experimentation and engaging with the games we are passionate about.

As the Senior Manager, Audio Direction on an Unpublished R&D Product, you will be responsible for building the game’s audio direction and driving the vision through all aspects of audio including Voice, SFX, and Music. You will lean on your years of experience to help build some of the most iconic audio in the world of gaming. Your skills, artistic ear and understanding of audio principles and process will lead the way in audio creation. You will partner with the Creative Director, other craft leads as well as Product Owners, Designers and Engineers to create globally-appealing content that inspires your team and delights players. You will report directly to the Art Director.

Responsibilities:

• Create audio assets for highly iterative gameplay features using industry-standard methods and tools.
• Develop audio vision and strategy, ensuring all audio content for the product is delivered.
• Collaborate with product leadership to align audio around product mission and goals.
• Clearly define and communicate audio goals including how they align with product goals to direct reports, product leadership and others.
• Ensure your team has the appropriate process and pipelines in place for effective audio content delivery.
• Create and execute on a hiring plan to ensure the audio team has the appropriate staff and resources to accomplish product goals.
• Run weekly reviews, audio playtests, feedback consolidation, to create high-quality audio experiences that players appreciate.
• Define/manage milestones, schedule, priorities, and work output against audio vision and product goals/direction for multiple teams from pre-production onward.
• Manage 2-5 audio developers, including other managers/leads for performance and growth, through the use of PDP’s, recurring 1:1’s, and performance reviews.
• Work with narrative/voice over team to develop consistent quality and output of all in-game and linear voice over content.
• Use in-house engine tools and Wwise to implement assets directly into the game for characters, features and other systems. 
• Manage outsource partners for quality control and workload overflow.

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of industry experience working in game audio (SFX, VO, Music), including designing, mixing, implementing, mastering, and shipping audio 
• 6+ years of professional experience directly working with audio middleware e.g. Wwise, FMOD, Unreal Audio, etc.
• 5+ years of professional experience as a Lead Sound Designer
• 5+ years of proven experience managing and mentoring direct reports in the audio discipline
• Experience navigating products from prototype through late production and launch in sustainable approach

Desired Qualifications:

• Professional experience working with various game engines from licensed to proprietary (Unity, Unreal, etc.)
• Expertise working in the holistic game audio process (sound design, voice-over, music, implementation, pipelines, technology, player experience, etc.).
• Knowledge of programming or scripting languages (Unreal Blueprint, C++, etc.)
• Strong sense of game design and gameplay
• Excellent communication, time-management, and organizational skills
• Comfortable and experienced with JIRA, and Perforce 
• Ability to navigate product stakeholder, studio leadership, discipline and team feedback

As a part of the application process, you may be expected to provide a portfolio or demo reel of your work and may be asked to complete an audio test.

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains.  We work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to solve complex, large-scale challenges and deliver player value.  As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll lead the development of key features and model high standards of engineering excellence. 

As a Principal Software Engineer, Tech Lead on an unpublished R&D product, you will lead the technical foundations for one of Riot’s most exciting new games. You will work closely with other experts in engineering, QA, art and design to ensure the game is meeting the team’s development needs, creative goals, and quality marks on multiple platforms.  In this role you will be hands-on in architecting core features of the game, evaluating shared and upcoming technologies, directing the work of other engineers, and developing and debugging some of the game’s most fundamental systems. You will work with state-of-the-art technology and explore new solutions to surprise and delight our players as we bring this new game to life. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Tech Foundations team and partner with them to direct the work of 8-10 engineers working on engine, tools, build, rendering, and console features.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with QA, engineers, designers, artists and area leads to make product decisions which address the technical, creative and artistic requirements of the game
• Participate in the planning and execution of the team’s engineering work, including requirements gathering, technical evaluation, architecture, work breakdown and estimation
• Investigate, understand, and solve complex technical problems at the team level
• Profile and direct optimization efforts for CPU and memory usage on PC and console
• Advance and strengthen engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and maintainable architecture
• Provide mentorship to new engineers as the team scales, and provide feedback that supports their technical growth

Required Qualifications: 

• 10+ years (or equivalent depth) of professional experience in software engineering, including experience delivering live or shipped products at scale
• 5+ years experience working in Unreal Engine on engine, tools, build, rendering, and console features
• Experience shipping one or more games on various platforms
• Experience in performance profiling and optimization on console
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems with minimal support
• Experience with simultaneously directing efforts in more than one technology area
• Experience regularly collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in C++

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building multiplayer games
• Background in graphics/rendering
• Direct experience working on console features and certification
• Experience implementing framework level UI systems
• Experience developing tools ecosystems in Unreal
• Experience mentoring technical ICs and contributing to engineering culture
• Experience working on distributed teams

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

Riot engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the opportunity to work in a variety of broader domains.  We work with both new and current technology, creating innovative solutions to overcome high-volume obstacles and to deliver player value.  As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll drive important features and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Staff Software Engineer, Console on an unpublished R&D product, you will lead the way on console development for one of Riot’s most exciting new games. You will work closely with other experts in engineering, QA, art and design to ensure the game is meeting the team’s creative and quality marks on multiple platforms. In this role you will be hands-on in developing and debugging core features of the game, integrating console-specific systems, delivering the gamepad experience, and addressing certification requirements. You will work with state-of-the-art technology, and explore new solutions to surprise and delight our players as we bring this new game to life. You will report to the Senior Engineering Manager of the Tech Foundations team within an R&D game project.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with QA, engineers, designers and artists to understand and address the technical, creative and artistic requirements of the game on console
• Investigate, understand and solve complex technical problems specific to console
• Profile and optimize performance and memory usage on console platforms
• Integrate first party features for each console platform into the game
• Drive the implementation of technical certification requirements on each platform
• Participate in the planning and execution of engineering work for console including requirements gathering, technical discovery, work breakdown and estimation
• Drive exceptional quality by adhering to and evolving the team’s practices of engineering excellence, including code maintainability, quality, monitoring, code reviews, and documentation
• Provide mentorship to new engineers as the team scales, and provide feedback that supports their technical growth

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering, including experience delivering live or shipped products at scale
• 3+ years experience working on console-specific game development
• Experience shipping one or more console platform titles
• Experience in performance profiling and optimization on console
• Experience implementing TCRs/TRCs for one or more console platforms
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and solve complex problems with minimal support
• Experience collaborating with teammates across multiple disciplines
• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences
• B.S. in computer science or equivalent experience

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience building multiplayer games
• Experience implementing or porting UI on console platforms
• Experience implementing the gamepad experience for one or more console games
• Experience with input handling (Common UI, Enhanced Input)
• Experience in graphics/rendering

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

关于我们

我们以玩家体验为核心，专注于创新与高性能的技术开发。作为Riot中国在研项目组的一员，你将与多元化团队协作，面向全球玩家开发和优化新一代游戏服务。我们鼓励持续学习和开放交流，为工程师提供成长与挑战并存的环境。如果你热爱技术，有志于高并发与分布式挑战，欢迎加入我们，共同打造未来的游戏体验。

岗位职责

• 负责游戏服务端功能模块的开发与维护，保障服务稳定、高效与安全；
• 实现和优化服务端核心系统，包括用户数据、战斗逻辑等相关支撑模块；
• 持续改进服务端性能，定位并解决线上和测试环境中的技术问题；
• 参与服务端相关工具开发，提高开发与运维效率；
• 与客户端、策划等多团队协作，高效推动功能实现与体验落地；
• 跟踪主流服务端技术动态，并将优秀实践和新技术应用到项目中。

任职要求

• 本科及以上学历，2年以上服务端开发经验，计算机相关专业优先；
• 熟悉C++、Java或Golang等主流服务端编程语言，有扎实的编码和调试能力；
• 熟悉高并发、分布式系统、常用中间件（如消息队列、缓存、数据库等）的开发与优化；
• 能够独立负责细分模块或业务功能的开发、测试及维护；
• 具备良好的分析和问题定位能力，能高效响应并解决线上业务问题；
• 善于跨团队沟通与合作，把控开发进度，确保需求高质量落地；
• 有持续学习和自我提升意识，关注行业新技术动态。

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关于我们

我们以玩家体验为核心，致力于用创新技术为全球玩家带来卓越的游戏体验。作为Riot中国在研项目组的一员，你将和多元化团队一同探索前沿引擎技术，不断学习与成长，共同打造高品质、充满想象力的游戏产品。我们鼓励开放合作、不断挑战自我，诚邀热爱研发和创新的你加入！

岗位职责

• 负责基于Unreal Engine 5（UE5）引擎的游戏客户端功能开发与维护；
• 实现和优化客户端各类核心功能，保障高性能和稳定性，为玩家呈现流畅的游戏体验；
• 参与客户端功能模块的技术实现与维护，推动功能高质量落地；
• 与策划、美术及服务器等多团队协作，确保功能需求精准实现和体验优化；
• 针对新需求和玩家反馈，持续进行性能分析、问题定位与优化迭代；
• 跟踪引擎和行业新技术，将高效工具、流程和最佳实践应用到项目中。

任职要求

• 本科及以上学历，2年以上游戏客户端开发经验，有较强的C++编程功底；
• 至少1年以上Unreal Engine 5（UE5）项目开发经验 或 2年以上Unity项目开发经验，熟悉引擎开发流程；
• 能够独立负责细分功能模块的开发、优化与维护；
• 具备良好的性能优化能力，能够定位并解决客户端的性能问题与兼容性问题；
• 能与策划、美术、服务端等岗位高效沟通协作，共同推动需求开发与落地；
• 具备严谨的编码规范与问题分析能力，乐于分享与持续学习新技术。

加分项

• 有大型多人在线游戏、沙盒、MOBA或高复杂度项目的UE5客户端开发经验；
• 熟悉UE5渲染、UI、动画、网络同步等相关模块开发；
• 有Unreal Engine工具或插件开发经验；
• 拥有既能独立钻研新技术又能带动团队贡献的能力；
• 熟悉英雄联盟IP，有国际化、多文化项目经验；
• 英语口语流利，能阅读或编写英文技术文档。

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拳头上海的游戏研发部门，秉持着“用户体验优先”的设计理念，把玩家的的梦想和反馈视作第一目标，凝聚团队力量，进行游戏研发。我们的团队专家有着不同的背景，但都富有经验、乐于分享，致力于合作出富有活力的新游戏。

我们正在寻找一位对游戏充满热情的动画师，具备玩家同理心和研发责任心，认真对待玩家的声音，为Riot的新游戏注入活力。您将与团队紧密合作，通过动画的方式把我们的英雄和世界观呈现给我们的新老玩家，使之激动和振奋。

职责：

• 创作行业顶尖的游戏动画
• 独立产出符合角色个性和项目风格的动画资源
• 独立完成头发，布料等次级骨骼的制作
• 独立完成引擎中的动画导入和调试工作
• 在项目中自主工作，与不同的负责人和专业领域专家协作
• 在不影响艺术质量的前提下，及时完成项目截止任务
• 与团队保持持续沟通，包括给予与接受反馈并为团队提供明确的目标与成果
• 对动画外包进行指导和反馈

岗位要求：

• 具备较好的审美，有创建风格化动画的经验
• 具有扎实的人形动作类手K能力
• 5年及以上游戏动画制作经验
• 5年以上使用 Maya 的专业工作经验
• 热爱动作类游戏，注重玩家体验
• 熟练使用UE
• 具有优秀的执行能力，能积极配合项目节点
• 具有一定的动画设计能力
• 有完整项目经历，有至少一个游戏项目上线经验
• 熟悉《英雄联盟》IP及风格

加分项：

• 具有动作类游戏开发经验
• 熟悉面部表情制作流程
• 具有动捕的经验
• 有一款以上主流游戏的深度体验经验

在提交申请时，请提供包含高质量动画作品（包括风格化作品）的作品集，你可能被要求完成动画测试。

对于这个岗位，你将通过工艺专业知识、协作精神以及优先考虑玩家乐趣的决策来获得成功。我们将关注您过去的学习、经验以及您与游戏的个人关系。如果您体现了玩家的同理心并关心玩家的体验，这可能就是您的角色！

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Riot Engineers bring deep knowledge of specific technical areas but also value the chance to work in many broader domains. As a Principal Software Engineer, you’ll also dive into projects that focus on team cohesiveness and cross-team goals. You’ll lead without authority and provide other engineers with a clear illustration of extraordinary engineering.

As a Principal Software Engineer on an unpublished R&D Product focused on backend services, you will be responsible for the entire back-end servicing the core gameplay of a new game. This includes defining interactions between client and server that are fundamental to every player’s experience (think: high load, high availability) and varying infrastructure and compliance requirements. This also includes ensuring we have monitoring and diagnostic capabilities to help us when things go wrong. You will ensure we have a solid technical foundation so when we get to launch at scale, everything goes smoothly.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and deliver internet scale backend services for a genre-defining game we will deliver globally to millions of people
• Own building features from in-game all the way down to the backend service implementation
• Champion the technical vision for the team with production and management
• Collaborate with leadership on planning and long term vision for gameplay related services
• Build features to improve server reliability and performance
• Implement server infrastructure in support of new gameplay features
• Build and support live services for the game
• Work with cloud technologies and services such as AWS
• Mentor more junior engineers on the team
• Collaborate effectively with art, design, and other disciplines within game development
• Review and identify risks and requirements for usage of shared technologies owned by other teams

Required Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience building large scale backend systems or game services
• Experience developing large systems from scratch, including gathering requirements and designing scalable, production-ready architecture
• BS degree or equivalent experience
• Expertise with C++, Java, Golang, or any other modern language
• Experience with cloud computing and cloud technologies
• Has shipped and supported player facing game features

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience working on a global scale online game
• Experience with Unreal Engine
• Experience with C++ and Golang
• Experience working on both sides of client/service architecture
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines including Jenkins
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

(Redwood City only) Base salary range between $246,300.00 - $343,400.00 USD + incentive compensation + equity + 401K with company match + medical, dental, vision, and life insurance + short and long-term disability + open PTO.

The Insights discipline helps empower Rioters' decision-making to be more data-informed. We're an interdisciplinary group of scientists, consultants, and strategists from all sorts of backgrounds who join together to represent and advocate for gamers around the world. We believe that illuminating the globally diverse experiences, behaviors, and needs of gamers is critical to Riot living up to our player-focused mission. We're a group united by our love of games, science, and helping others succeed.

As a Senior Researcher on an unpublished R&D product, you will be embedded on a team developing a brand new game experience. You'll conduct a wide range of studies and analyses - including playtests, qualitative interviews, and usability studies - to inform the direction, experience, systems, features, and content of the game product. You’ll be part of an interdisciplinary team and work closely with Rioters from other disciplines (design, art, production, publishing, etc.) to turn the findings of your research into actionable insights which guide the course of game product development and publishing. Your applied and/or experimental research background coupled with your deep understanding of data will ensure that you’re an effective advocate for players and can provide strategic guidance about how to best meet players where they are. 

Responsibilities:

• Perform user research efforts on complex ambiguous problem spaces to help inform the experience and direction of content, systems, features, and publishing strategies, in partnership with cross-functional leadership
• Construct and perform labs, studies, market research and surveys - sometimes with novel or complex methodologies - designed to answer product, design, development, and usability questions
• Conduct research to inform monetization strategy, including player value perception, pricing models, and purchasing behavior for cosmetic content
• Partner closely with analytics and data insights where appropriate to incorporate player data into your work
• Be an advocate for our players and provide strategic research-informed perspective about their wants, needs, and behaviors
• Meaningfully contribute to discussions on the best way to conduct and improve testing and audience research work for the game in development
• Closely collaborate and develop a high-trust relationship with teams at multiple levels of the game’s organization, becoming a trusted, self-starting and independent partner to support collaborator and stakeholder needs.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline plus 5 years of relevant research experience in game development
• Broad experience in a variety of research methods including playtests, user interviews, and market research with deep expertise in at least one of these areas
• Trusted to operate independently regardless of structure and comfortable with owning large projects, problem spaces, and workstreams
• Experience synthesizing research into actionable insights and socializing to team and product leadership
• Trusted to operate independently regardless of structure, owns larger problems/projects/workstreams
• Ability to work collaboratively with others

Desired Qualifications:

• Meaningful familiarity and affinity for multiplayer competitive games
• Experience conducting games user research during the early stages of the development life cycle particularly incubation, prototype, and pre-production
• Experience conducting games user research during lead-up to launch and into live service
• Demonstrated familiarity with player value drivers for cosmetic content, including aesthetics, identity expression, rarity, theming, and social signaling within games.
• Familiarity with feature and content specific testing (RITEs, usability testing, content concept testing)
• Familiarity with basic statistical methods for data analysis (regressions, correlations, factor analyses)
• Familiarity with qualitative methods and analysis
• Experience managing vendors

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise and a collaborative spirit that prioritizes the delight of players. We will look at your past studies and experience, but for this role, we also look for dedicated people with a personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this is the role for you!

Our Perks:

Riot focuses on work/life balance, shown by our open paid time off policy and other perks such as flexible work schedules. We offer medical, dental, and life insurance, parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children, and a 401k with company match. Check out our benefits pages for more information.

At Riot Games, we put players first. That mission drives every decision in our quest to create games and experiences that make it better to be a player. Whether you’re working directly on a new player-facing experience or you’re supporting the company as a whole, everyone at Riot is part of our mission. And just like in our games, we’re better when we work together. Our goal is to create collaborative teams where you are empowered to bring your unique perspective everyday. If that sounds like the kind of place you want to work, we’re looking forward to your application.

It’s our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and members of Riot Games, Inc. Riot Games makes reasonable accommodations for handicapped and disabled Rioters and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, handicap, veteran status, marital status, criminal history, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law. We consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including the California Fair Chance Act, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the Washington Fair Chance Act.

Per the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the following core duties may create a basis for disqualifying candidates with relevant criminal histories:

• Safeguarding confidential and sensitive Company data
• Communication with others, including Rioters and third parties such as vendors, and/or players, including minors
• Accessing Company assets, secure digital systems, and networks
• Ensuring a safe interactive environment for players and other Rioters

These duties are directly related to essential operations, safety, trust, and compliance obligations within our organization. Please note that job duties may evolve based on business needs and additional responsibilities may be assigned as necessary to maintain operational efficiency and security. 

职责：

对游戏系统和流程进行测试，推进质量保障工作

• 制定测试标准，设计涵盖游戏特性的测试用例
• 制定符合里程碑开发规划的测试流程
• 与工程师合作，筛查缺陷，并跟踪推动缺陷的解决
• 搭建自动测试框架

必备条件：

• 拥有5年以上的游戏项目测试经验
• 提炼缺陷共性，协同项目组优化开发
• 熟悉Jira工具
• 理解版本控制工作流程
• 谦逊，团队合作性强，具备较好的沟通和学习能力

优先条件：

• 具有使用商业引擎Unreal的经验
• 经历大型游戏项目从研发到上线的完整经验
• 具备敏捷开发经验

拳头游戏的工程师不仅在特定技术领域具备深厚的专业知识，也同样重视在更广泛、多样化的领域中工作的机会。作为一名软件工程师，您还将深入参与旨在增强团队凝聚力、实现跨团队目标的项目。您将主导游戏玩法功能的开发，并为其他工程师清晰地展示何为卓越的工程实践。

作为研发部门的一名Software Engineer, Services，您将运用自身在技术领域的精深知识，为拳头游戏激动人心的新作注入生命力。您将与产品负责人、设计师、艺术家及其他工程师在团队中紧密合作，共同探索产品的根本性问题，并打造出能将玩家的梦想变为现实的卓越体验。理想的候选人应充满热情、积极主动，并有志于引领该游戏领域的技术愿景。

岗位职责（Responsibilities）：

• 负责游戏服务端功能模块的开发与维护，保障服务稳定、高效与安全；
• 实现和优化服务端核心系统，包括用户数据、战斗逻辑等相关支撑模块；
• 持续改进服务端性能，定位并解决线上和测试环境中的技术问题；
• 参与服务端相关工具开发，提高开发与运维效率；
• 与客户端、策划等多团队协作，高效推动功能实现与体验落地；
• 跟踪主流服务端技术动态，并将优秀实践和新技术应用到项目中。

任职要求（Required Qualifications）：

• 本科及以上学历，2年以上服务端开发经验，计算机相关专业优先；
• 熟悉C++、Java或Golang等主流服务端编程语言，有扎实的编码和调试能力；
• 熟悉高并发、分布式系统、常用中间件（如消息队列、缓存、数据库等）的开发与优化；
• 能够独立负责细分模块或业务功能的开发、测试及维护；
• 具备良好的分析和问题定位能力，能高效响应并解决线上业务问题；
• 善于跨团队沟通与合作，把控开发进度，确保需求高质量落地；
• 有持续学习和自我提升意识，关注行业新技术动态。

加分项（Desired Qualifications）：

• 有客户端 / 服务端双端架构开发经验。
• 有 CI/CD 流水线经验（如 Jenkins）。
• 有容器化技术经验（如 Docker）。

用工性质：与专业人事服务公司 FESCO Adecco 签订劳动合同