Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning

THE OPPORTUNITY :

What if every player experienced the right challenge, reward or offer at the right moment? We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to build the intelligence behind those decisions. You will translate rich gameplay and player-behavior data into machine learning solutions that improve player experience, engagement, retention and sustainable monetization.

This is a hands-on, high-ownership role - identify the opportunity, build the model, validate its incremental impact and partner with Product and Engineering to bring it into the game.

PROBLEMS YOU WILL HELP SOLVE :

- Personalization & recommendations - Recommend relevant challenges, rewards, offers and in-game experiences using player behavior, context and preferences; evolve from broad segments toward individual-level personalization.

- Potential payer & value prediction - Identify players likely to make a first purchase, estimate future player value (LTV) and support thoughtful decisions about when and how to engage different player groups.

- Churn prediction & retention - Detect early signs of disengagement, understand why players leave and develop models that help target meaningful retention interventions.

- Player economy & monetization - Find opportunities across virtual currency, game modes, in-app purchases and ads while balancing monetization with healthy gameplay and player experience.

- Experimentation & incremental impact - Use A/B tests and causal approaches to evaluate whether model-driven interventions actually improve outcomes, not just predictions.

WHAT YOU WILL OWN :

- End-to-end applied ML - Frame product questions as measurable ML problems; develop features, train and evaluate models, and help operationalize scoring or recommendations.

- Rigorous measurement - Choose suitable offline and online metrics; address rare outcomes, data leakage, bias, calibration and model drift; design trustworthy experiments and guardrails.

- Cross-functional delivery - Partner closely with Product, Game Design, LiveOps, Analytics and Engineering to turn models into decisions, features and measurable results.

- Clear communication - Explain trade-offs, insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical stakeholders; help shape the data science roadmap.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR :

- Experience - 4+ years in data science or applied machine learning, with evidence of taking models beyond notebooks into real product or business decisions.

TECHNICAL STRENGTH :

- Strong Python and SQL skills; practical experience with feature engineering, supervised learning, model evaluation and libraries such as scikit-learn, XGBoost/LightGBM, PyTorch or TensorFlow.

- Statistical judgment - Solid grounding in probability, statistics, experimentation and interpreting model performance for imbalanced classification, ranking or regression problems.

- Execution mindset - Comfort working with large behavioral/event datasets, ambiguous problems, iteration, version control and cloud environments such as AWS, Azure or GCP.

- Product curiosity - An ability to connect technical results to player behavior, user experience and measurable business impact.

GREAT TO HAVE :

- Domain experience - Free-to-play/mobile gaming, consumer apps, recommendations, churn prevention, payer propensity, LTV forecasting or lifecycle marketing.

- Advanced methods - Recommender systems, uplift modeling, contextual bandits, reinforcement learning, causal inference, deep learning or production ML/MLOps.

- Emerging technologies - Interest in applying LLMs or agentic AI to meaningful analytics or player-experience problems.