[Remote] Research Scientist Intern, Game AI - Summer 2026 (Remote)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Riot Games is a company focused on creating exceptional player experiences through innovative technology. As a Research Scientist Intern, you will contribute to a team that leverages generative AI to enhance game development pipelines and player experiences by tracking research, building prototypes, and collaborating with game teams.
Responsibilities
- Partner with game teams and creators to shape the future of gameplay through next-generation technologies
- Partner with artists, designers, and engineers to prototype new applications of research
- Explore the application of large language models and state of the art content generation models to games in development and production
Skills
- Enrolled in an M.S. or Ph.D. program in statistics, engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, or a related quantitative field (math, physics, etc.)
- Graduating during the 2027 calendar year
- Available to work full-time hours for the 12 week internship duration
- Eligible to work in the country that you reside in during this remote program
- Experience in deep learning, including frameworks such as Tensorflow or PyTorch
- Experience processing data and build machine learning models using Python
- Experience in machine learning techniques
- Experience in statistical modeling and optimization
- Understanding of distributed systems and concurrent programming
- Familiarity with cloud computing basics on AWS (EC2, S3)
- Experience working with Linux operating systems
- Experience in C++ and game development (Unreal, Unity, Godot)
- Experience with version control systems. (We use Git)
- Experience in large language models, diffusion models, neural radiance fields, or Gaussian splats
- Experience in social network analysis, natural language processing, computer vision, or signal processing
Benefits
- Riot Internships are paid
- 401(k) plan
- In-game perks
- Participate in our Play Fund
- Intern focused events
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