Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - Game Tech Group, AI Foundations

Engineering managers at Riot are technical leaders first — they stay close to the craft, make grounded architectural decisions, and earn credibility through the quality of their technical judgment. They are also deeply invested in people: building diverse teams, growing individual careers, and creating environments where engineers do the best work of their lives. The best Riot engineering managers hold both of these responsibilities without trading one for the other. AI Foundations (AIF) designs and operates Riot's production execution layer for models, agents, and AI-native workflows. The organization has three teams: ML Platform (model hosting, inference, lifecycle tooling), ML Bots (game-agent runtime and training), and Production AI (AI developer workflows, tooling, and vendor management), plus a small leadership staff. Together, these teams serve every game studio and central team at Riot that wants to use AI. A