Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Central Technology, Anti-Cheat

Riot Games·Los Angeles, USA·Posted 12 October 2026

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Anti-Cheat is Riot’s first defense against cheaters that don’t want to play fair. As a cross-discipline team of former cheaters, kernel developers, machine learning engineers, data analysts, and software engineers, they make products like Vanguard to detect and ban the bad guys across all of Riot’s competitive titles and platforms, staying vigilant to whatever shape they’ll take in response. From beaming bots to scorching scripters, anti-cheat enables Riot’s game teams to take on competitive genres and design rewarding systems that would otherwise be too vulnerable to fraudsters and cheaters. Riot Machine Learning Engineers on Anti-Cheat are builders, trailblazers, and stewards of competitive integrity. We protect the legitimacy of Riot’s multiplayer games and player experience by building automated detection and decisioning systems to address a wide range of anticompetitive threats. As a Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist on Anti-Cheat, you will build machine learning driven detection systems to identify players engaging in cheating and other forms of abuse, and will develop agentic systems for reviewing and and actioning these players. You will partner with anti-cheat experts as well…

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