Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Audio - Singapore Efficiency Team
Riot Games5 days ago
Singapore, SingaporeStaff+
Responsibilities
- Build assistive audio tools using audio processing, voice and speech, and music techniques to reduce repetitive and technical work.
- Partner with sound designers and audio engineers to identify costly authoring and editing workflows and ship productivity-focused tooling.
- Define and run audio-quality evaluations and quantify time returned to audio teams.
- Track developments in audio and speech machine learning and assess their suitability for production constraints.
- Mentor junior team members and interns and drive cross-functional collaboration.
Requirements
- Master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field focused on Machine Learning, Data Science, or Artificial Intelligence.
- At least 5 years of experience applying machine learning to real-world problems and delivering end-to-end ML solutions in audio.
- Deep, proven expertise in generative audio, neural vocoders, text-to-speech, voice conversion, music modeling, and audio representation learning.
- Evidence of state-of-the-art audio work through peer-reviewed publications, shipped projects, open-source contributions, or production systems.
- Proficiency in Python, C, C++, or C# and hands-on experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
- Strong understanding of statistical analysis, experimental design, and evaluation techniques.
- Hands-on experience with generative models, including audio diffusion, flow matching models, VAEs, and autoregressive or transformer models for waveform or spectrogram modeling.
- Excellent communication skills for explaining complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership experience mentoring junior team members and interns and driving cross-functional collaboration is highly desirable.
- Gaming-industry or related experience is a plus.
Benefits
- Full relocation support.
- Full health insurance for the employee, spouse, and children.
- Open paid time off.
- Retirement benefits with company matching.
- Life insurance, parental leave, and short-term and long-term disability coverage.
- Play Fund for learning more about players and the community through games.
- Matching donations of time and money to non-profits.
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About Riot Games
Riot Games develops and publishes online multiplayer games for PC and mobile, including League of Legends, Valorant, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. The company operates free-to-play titles monetized via in-game purchases and runs global esports leagues and events around its franchises. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Los Angeles, Riot is a subsidiary of Tencent with offices worldwide.