Engineering Manager

Role Overview

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 will predominantly offer creative solutions to organizational design. You will also serve as a mentor for a team of engineers, overseeing performance management, growth opportunities, and accountability. You will guide a group of engineers building the systems, behaviors, and machine-learning–driven capabilities for the VALORANT team. You will lead a passionate team of engineers in supporting the ongoing needs of a large and geographically diverse development team, bringing management and development experience, strong technical judgment, and a passion for advocating for both players and developers.

Responsibilities

• Manage a group of 4-8 engineers across experience levels, providing regular feedback and performance management. Coach and develop your engineering team to grow in their roles, develop technical skills, and improve their effectiveness.
• Develop and communicate the technical vision for your team, working with design, production, and game leadership partners to ensure consistency with overall product goals. Communicate and evangelize this vision to your team clearly.
• Advocate for players, your team, and internal development customers when deciding what to build and why. Coordinate and work effectively with other teams across Riot working on AI and ML technology.
• Serve as a technical backstop by contributing to code as appropriate, reviewing technical designs, and ensuring strong engineering practices and architectural rigor. Ensure high technical quality of what your team produces.
• Foster a collaborative, challenging, and satisfying environment for your development team. Find and surface issues, opportunities, and address them head-on. Celebrate wins.
• Be a standard-bearer and role model of Riot values for your team and others.
• Resolve conflict and respond to emergent issues.
• Other reasonable activities required by management.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a hands-on Software Engineer.
• 2+ years experience directly leading an engineering team of at least 4 as an Engineering Manager and/or Engineering Lead.
• 2+ years experience developing in Unreal, Unity, or another game engine.
• 2+ years experience with game AI technologies (behavior trees, perception systems, etc.) and/or ML technologies (data science, machine learning, model training and inference, etc.).
• Experience writing, reading, and reviewing C++.
• Experience working in complex, large-scale game or engine codebases.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across disciplines.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience developing games for Xbox and PlayStation console platforms.
• Experience in Agile processes and continuous delivery.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base Salary Range: $192,500.00 - $269,400.00 USD (applicable to Los Angeles and Mercer Island locations).
• Incentive Compensation: Included.
• Equity: Included.
• Insurance: Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• Disability: Short and long-term disability.
• Retirement: 401k with company match.
• Time Off: Open paid time off policy.
• Additional Perks: Parental leave for you, your spouse/domestic partner, and children; flexible work schedules.

Additional Information

• Locations: Los Angeles, USA; Mercer Island, USA.
• Fair Chance Disqualifiers: 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.
• General Policy: 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.