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Senior Researcher, Large Language Models

Tencent UK

United Kingdom-London·Full-time·Posted 19 Jul 2026

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The role, as advertised by Tencent UK

Business Unit 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 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.

What the Role Entails

1. Develop agents based on large language models and optimizing their performance.
2. Collaborate with game designers and engineers to integrate LLM-powered agents into live game environments, ensuring latency, cost, and player experience requirements are met.
3. Research cutting-edge techniques in LLM reasoning, planning, tool-use, and memory, and adapt them to game agent scenarios.

Who We Look For

1. Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, with research focus preferred in Natural Language Processing (NLP), large language models, or related areas is preferred.
2. Familiar with machine learning foundations, with a strong understanding of statistical models and experience working on NLP related projects.
3. Proficient in at least one programming language, familiar with basic data structures and algorithms.
4. Publication of academic results in top-tier conferences in AI and NLP-related fields (such as: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, EMNLP, ACL) is preferred.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

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.

This role at a glance

This is one of 23 data and analytics roles open in England today, out of 631 live games jobs across the UK, and Tencent UK is hiring for 26 other roles alongside it. Going by the title it’s a senior role, usually asking for several years’ experience and shipped titles. Like most UK games roles it doesn’t publish a salary, and too few data and analytics roles do for a fair comparison. Our salary guide covers typical ranges.

Discipline
Data & Analytics
Level (from the title)
Senior
On gamesJobs since
20 Jul 2026
Other Data & Analytics roles in England
22

About Tencent UK

Tencent is the Chinese technology group behind WeChat and one of the largest games companies in the world, with stakes in or ownership of many Western studios, including UK-based Sumo Group. In 2022 Tencent Games opened a studio in Liverpool, initially housing members of its global production team.

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