Lightspeed Studios

About the Hiring Team: Tencent Overseas IT is dedicated to empowering Tencent's rapid global growth with future ready, global IT platforms, applications and services. We lead the overseas IT strategy, architecture, roadmap, and execution to satisfy internal and external customers while building a world class global IT team. Position Overview We are seeking a Sr. AI Software Engineer to architect and lead the development of a groundbreaking in house AI Coding Agent. This tool will act as a force multiplier for our game studios' development pipelines, accelerating our developers by providing intelligent code generation, in depth code inspection, and advanced debugging capabilities. Duties and Responsibilities Architect and lead the development of a robust, scalable AI Coding Agent tailored to our game development workflows (primarily for UE/Unity based games in C++, C#, and other relevant languages). Integrate the AI agent directly into developer IDEs (like Visual Studio, VS Code) and our game engines (e.g., Unreal Engine, Unity). Collaborate closely with game developers, technical artists, and engine programmers to gather requirements, understand pain points, and iterate on the tool's features. Optimize model inference speed and resource usage to ensure the agent is fast and responsive without hindering developer workstations. Mentor other engineers on the team and establish best practices for AI development, agentic RAG and agent based architectures. Stay current with the latest research in AI, code generation, and LLMs to continuously improve the agent's capabilities. Who We Look For Customer oriented and able to thrive in a fast paced environment. Positive, self motivated, and passionate. Independent, insistent, and open minded. Great team player, dependable and autonomous. Data driven decision maker. Requirements 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong background in Python, TypeScript, C++, or C#. Proven experience building complex AI systems, with hands on expertise in Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and AI Agent architectures. Deep, hands on experience with LLM APIs and/or fine tuning and serving open source models. Strong understanding of prompt engineering and context engineering to maximize model relevance and accuracy. Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to work on complex, ambiguous projects, delivering results in a fast paced environment. Experience with observability, performance optimization, and production incident response. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, Machine Learning, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience). Preferred Qualifications Direct experience building a Coding Agent or similar developer facing AI tool (IDE plugins, CLI, etc.). Experience in the game development industry or with game engines (Unreal, Unity). Equal Employment Opportunity: At Tencent, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and community. We foster an environment where every employee feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals. Tencent is a world leading internet and technology company that develops innovative products and services to improve the quality of life for people around the world.

Responsibilities Responsible for NLP research and development including LLM reasoning, conversational agents, machine translation, part-of-speech tagging, sentence analysis and named entity recognition. Optimize existing online algorithms, develop efficient and reliable NLP solutions by combining business needs and data. Explore applications of NLP techniques and deep learning algorithms in games. Follow the latest developments in academia and industry and quickly apply findings in your work. Qualifications Familiar with NLP fundamentals, with a strong understanding of statistical models, related machine learning principles, and experience working on NLP related projects. Proficient in at least one programming language, familiar with basic data structures and algorithms. Practical experience working with large language models (e.g., DeepSeel, Qwen, LLaMA), including model fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and evaluation. Familiarity with training optimization frameworks like DeepSpeed, FSDP, and LoRA is highly preferred. Experience using tools and frameworks such as LLaMAFactory, Hugging Face Transformers, LangChain, or OpenLLM for model deployment, serving, or pipeline development. Comfortable with using modern MLOps practices for NLP workflows. Demonstrated ability to publish research results in top-tier NLP conferences (e.g., ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, NeurIPS, ICLR) or practical contributions to open-source LLM/NLP projects is preferred. Comfortable with both classical (e.g., CRF, SVM) and deep learning approaches (e.g., Transformers, RNNs, CNNs, LSTMs, GANs). Deep understanding of transformer architectures, attention mechanisms, and distributed training techniques is a strong advantage. Equal Employment Opportunity As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.

Lightspeed Studios in Greater London is looking for a candidate focused on NLP research and development. The successful applicant will take responsibility for optimizing NLP algorithms and exploring new applications in gaming using deep learning techniques. Candidates should have a strong understanding of statistical models, familiarity with large language models, and experience with model deployment tools like Hugging Face Transformers and LangChain.

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Lightspeed Studios is looking for a Sr. AI Software Engineer to lead the development of an innovative in-house AI Coding Agent. This role will significantly enhance our game studios' development pipelines by providing intelligent code generation and advanced debugging capabilities. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in software engineering, especially in Python, TypeScript, C++, and C#. A background in game development with experience in the development of AI systems is preferred. Join us at Lightspeed Studios and help us shape the future of gaming.