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Job description
We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our work on the mobile project — Aliens vs Zombies: Invasion. You will work with large volumes of data from a live project, focusing on machine learning: finding hidden patterns, building predictive models, and helping the product grow through quality ML solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, train, and maintain ML models for predicting LTV and other business metrics.
- Develop user churn prediction models.
- Conduct user segmentation for personalizing the gaming experience.
- Find effective proxy events for optimizing product decisions.
- Conduct factor analysis (SHAP + multiplier framework (tutorial/engagement signals)) and evaluate the impact of various features on key metrics.
- Analyze unstructured data (e.g., for automating player feedback processing).
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Data Scientist / ML Engineer.
- Ability to work with AI: practical use of modern LLM in everyday development tasks.
- Proficient in Python: solid knowledge of the basic stack (NumPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, SciPy), Ensemble Frameworks (LightGBM, SHAP), and visualization tools (Plotly).
- SQL: ability to write efficient queries for large datasets (ClickHouse).
- ML: solid understanding of classical machine learning algorithms and their validation principles.
- Understanding of product and marketing metrics in mobile development (Retention, LTV, ROAS, etc.).
- Experience with version control systems (GitLab).
Conditions
- Fully remote work. Work from anywhere, five-day work week, working hours from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM Moscow time.
- Official employment and "white" payment. Contract with a foreign company, payments in dollars/euros to your foreign account.
- Real data and scale. Live game Aliens vs Zombies: Invasion with a large audience and direct access to raw data (ClickHouse).
- Cutting-edge technologies and AI: access to a vast list of top neural networks and AI tools, including Claude Code, to accelerate development and coding.
- 22 working days of paid vacation.
- A team without bureaucracy. Small team, flat structure, fast communication, and direct contact with management.
About Game gears
Game Gears is an AI-powered game studio within GDEV (NASDAQ:GDEV), driving innovation in entertainment technology with AI-driven tools and automation. They accelerate game production, optimize mechanics, enhance creativity, and collaborate with game studios, AI developers, and tech partners on AI-driven production, procedural content generation, and gameplay optimization.