Job Overview

As a part of Creative Research team, you will work in the intersection of game development and data science areas. Your role will be to deliver state-of-the-art Machine Learning solutions for our game development processes. The ideal candidate won’t just help us to solve tasks, you will bring a new knowledge and experience to the team. As a subject matter expert, you will be combining your professional experience and an intrinsic desire for problem solving, with your passion of games in order to explore a new frontier within the realm of game development with our data scientists and academic research partners.

We are looking for a new team member with strong interpersonal skills and a combination of analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and accountability. The ideal candidate is intelligent, sharp, detail-oriented, and highly quantitative individual with a passion for gaming, data modeling, analysis, and working with cross-functional teams.

What will you do?

• Analyze data and apply researching, designing, prototyping and productization of machine learning solutions to challenge various business issues in game development

• Prepare documentation in a simple, understandable way for a business or technical audience

• Develop specifications for created models for further automation

• Design, prototype, and implement advanced machine learning algorithms to help improve player experiences. Work with data science and engineering team to implement robust processes in real time

• Review relevant academic and industry research to identify useful algorithms, techniques, libraries, etc. Monitor latest Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence trends and cutting-edge technics to leverage them on our projects

• Frame and conduct intricate analyses and experiments using extremely large, complex (not always well-structured, highly variable) data sets, analyze large amounts of information to discover trends and patterns

• Create statistical models and machine learning algorithms that provide insights and direction for overall game feature design and level design

• Research, implement and improve Machine Learning solutions to improve our game production processes or players experience

• Modify game code to allow effective implementation of ML algorithms

• Develop tools and processes that will help team members and stakeholders analyze experiment results

• Collaborate with other ML and game teams to industrialize Machine Learning solutions into innovative products and business processes

What are we looking for?

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, data mining, etc)

• Proven solid commercial programming experience with developing machine learning systems in a professional environment

• Understanding of the mathematical foundations of machine learning algorithms,knowledge of probability theory and mathematical statistics

• Proficiency in Python and multiple libraries (NumPy, OpenCV, XGBoost, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, etc.), in data models and architectures

• Experience using machine learning frameworks (Pytorch, Tensorflow, MxNet, Caffe, etc.)

• Teamwork experience, ability to work independently as well as in small teams with minimal supervision

• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical team members

• Intermediate or higher level of English

What additional skills will help you stand out?

• Experience in game development industry

• Experience with Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Network, NLP and other state of the art techniques

• Experience with other programming languages (C++, C#, R, etc.)

• Familiarity with data extraction across different database architectures (structured and non-structured)

• Experience with CUDA, cuDNN

• Experience with cloud data/data processing services

• Advanced data visualization skills

• Experience in creating analytical reports in English and Russian

Benefits

Benefits and perks are tailored to the local market and culture. Our benefits in Prague include:

• 5 weeks of Annual Leave per calendar year

• Up to 10 Personal Days per calendar year

• Career development and education opportunities within the company

• Language courses (English, Russian, Czech) fully covered by the company upon Manager’s approval.

• Meal card – 150 CZK net contribution for each business day

• Multisport Employee discounts

• Personal Gaming Account 

• Transportation allowance

• Premium private health care

• Coffee, fruits, snacks in the office

• Company events

• Seniority Awards  

• Referral program - You can recommend the best talents to the company and receive a reward  

• To learn more about our studio in Prague, follow this link: https://prague.wargaming.com/