Senior Researcher (Palo Alto)

About the Hiring TeamLevel Infinite is Tencent’s global gaming brand. It is a global game publisher offering a comprehensive network of services for games, development teams, and studios around the world.We are dedicated to delivering engaging and original gaming experiences to a worldwide audience, whenever and wherever they choose to play while building a community that fosters inclusivity, connection, and accessibility. Level Infinite also provides a wide range of services and resources to our network of developers and partner studios around the world to help them unlock the true potential of their games.What the Role EntailsTencent Games was established in 2003. We are a leading global platform for game development, operations and publishing, and the largest online game community in China.Tencent Games has developed and operated over 140 games. We provide cross-platform interactive entertainment experience for more than 800 million users in over 200 countries and regions around the world. Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE, and League of Legends, are some of our most popular titles around the world. Meanwhile, we actively promote the development of esports industry, work with global partners to build an open, collaborative and symbiotic industrial ecology, and create high-quality digital life experiences for players.Level Infinite is Tencent’s global gaming brand. It is a global game publisher offering a comprehensive network of services for games, development teams, and studios around the world. We are dedicated to delivering engaging and original gaming experiences to a worldwide audience, whenever and wherever they choose to play while building a community that fosters inclusivity, connection, and accessibility. Level Infinite also provides a wide range of services and resources to our network of developers and partner studios around the world to help them unlock the true potential of their games.1. Responsible for building LLMs for the gaming domain, including pre-training, instruction fine-tuning and post-training, training and inference acceleration, evaluation, etc., to drive long-term and continuous industry-leading product advantages.2. Establish and improve the theoretical and engineering systems for large game models, explore the application of large language model technologies in game AI scenarios, and empower all aspects of game creation and interactive experience with smarter model capabilities.3. Track and explore cutting-edge technologies and real-world applications of large language models.Who We Look For1. Over 5 years of research and work experience in the NLP field, with a background in computer science or related disciplines.2. Familiar with theoretical foundations of NLP, proficient in statistical models and machine learning principles, with hands-on NLP experience and participation in relevant projects. 3. Familiar with industry-leading large language models (such as GPT series, DeepSeek, LLaMA series, etc.) and their training methodologies.4. Experience in large model optimization, distributed training, and debugging is preferred.5. Experience in text generation, dialogue systems, or game AI is preferred.6. Publications in top NLP conferences/journals are preferred.Location State(s)US-California-Palo AltoThe expected base pay range for this position in the location(s) listed above is $127,100.00 to $297,000.00 per year. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Employees hired for this position may be eligible for a sign on payment, relocation package, and restricted stock units, which will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Subject to the terms and conditions of the plans in effect, hired applicants are also eligible for medical, dental, vision, life and disability benefits, and participation in the Company’s 401(k) plan. The Employee is also eligible for up to 15 to 25 days of vacation per year (depending on the employee’s tenure), up to 13 days of holidays throughout the calendar year, and up to 10 days of paid sick leave per year.
Your benefits may be adjusted to reflect your location, employment status, duration of employment with the company, and position level. Benefits may also be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.Equal Employment Opportunity at TencentAs 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.SummaryLocation: US-California-Palo AltoType: Full time