LIGHTSPEED STUDIOS is made up of passionate players who advance the art & science of game development through great stories, great gameplay, and advanced technology. We are focused on bringing next generation experiences to gamers who want to enjoy them anywhere, anytime, across multiple genres and devices.
About the Hiring Team
Lightspeed Tech Center は、PUBG モバイルを始めとする様々な高品質ゲームを手掛けた Lightspeed Studios の研究開発部門です。Tech Center は技術研究とイノベーションを牽引し、ゲーム作品にそのライフサイクルを通して、エンジン、音響、QA、AI、次世代技術、技術提携などのテクニカルサポートを提供しています。
Lightspeed Tech Center is a R&D department under Lightspeed Studios which develop PUBG Mobile and other high-quality games. Our Tech Center leads the research, exploration, and discovery of innovative technologies and provides technical services for all games during all phases of life cycle, including engine, audio, QA, AI, next generation game, technical cooperation, etc.
Develop game AI for cooperative reinforcement learning (RL) to meet practical development requirements in game contexts — including MARL, ad-hoc teamwork, and human-AI cooperation.
Advance research on reinforcement learning (RL) and its frontier combinations with large language models (LLMs) and world models — targeting generalist and cooperative game agents.
Drive development requirements and research topics forward from scratch — from problem formulation and literature review to experimentation, implementation, iteration, and results.
Solid understanding of RL theory (e.g., value-based / policy-gradient methods, actor-critic, exploration-exploitation).
Demonstrated capability in implementing RL algorithms and in the end-to-end training, tuning, and optimization of RL and related machine learning models.
Currently pursuing a PhD (preferred) or at least a Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field.
Preferred:
Familiarity with cooperative multi-agent RL (MARL), ad-hoc teamwork, or zero-shot human-AI cooperation.
Interest or experience in RL + LLM / foundation-model agents.
Publications in top conferences (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, or CVPR).
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