Senior Data Scientist, Skill & Matchmaking – VALORANT Data Ops

Riot Data Scientists combine their broad technical expertise across data processing, automation, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and experimental design to inform decisions and develop data-powered products. As a Senior Data Scientist, you’ll dive into projects across all areas of game development and will directly impact Riot’s live games.

Requirements

• Use machine learning to build products or inform decisions that directly improve the player or fan experience
• Deeply understand the landscape of skill-related problems across our titles, flag new product opportunities, and establish best practices for experimentation and evaluating success within the context of Skill systems
• Own the ML and AI iteration loop including dataset creation, feature engineering, technical discovery and prototyping, model tuning, and model management
• Build ML and AI tools and products for game development, working with stakeholders and engineers to design and deploy dashboards, web apps, forecasts, and simulations
• Continually improve our data science practice by identifying novel applications of existing capabilities as well as brand new technical approaches to address critical game and business problems
• Develop relationships with game producers, designers, QA, product managers, and engineering to ensure ML-oriented game features can launch successfully
• Represent data products to non-technical partners and collaborators

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules
• Medical, dental, and life insurance
• Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children
• 401k with company match