Data Scientist

Join Burny Games — a Ukrainian company that creates mobile puzzle games. Our mission is to create top-notch innovative games to challenge players' minds daily.

What makes us proud?

• In just two years, we've launched two successful mobile games worldwide: Playdoku and Colorwood Sort. We have paused some projects to focus on making our games better and helping our team improve.
• Our games have been enjoyed by over 45 million players worldwide, and we keep attracting more players.
• We've created a culture where we make decisions based on data, which helps us grow every month.
• We believe in keeping things simple, focusing on creativity, and always searching for new and effective solutions.

What are you working on?

• Genres: Puzzle, Casual
• Platforms: Mobile, iOS, Android, Social

Team size and structure?

130+ employees

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain ML for product and marketing teams
• Develop predictive systems for personalization, recommendations, and dynamic game content
• Automate data workflows and create reliable, scalable ML pipelines from feature engineering to deployment
• Monitor model performance, detect drift, and ensure ongoing accuracy and stability of ML systems
• Partner with Product, Marketing, and Engineering to integrate ML solutions into live games and operational workflows
• Own DS/ML projects end-to-end: from defining the problem to production deployment and iteration
• Share knowledge, conduct code reviews, and promote best practices across the data team

About You:

• 4+ years of experience in Data Science or ML, with a track record of delivering production models (2+ years in gamedev or consumer apps businesses)
• Strong background in statistical modeling, forecasting, and machine learning
• Advanced programming skills in Python or R (pandas, numpy, scikit-learn, PyTorch/TensorFlow or tidyverse, caret, mlr), writing clean and maintainable code
• Excellent SQL skills, confident with large-scale datasets and cloud data warehouses (BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift)
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining ML models in production environments
• Strong problem-solving mindset, able to translate business and product goals into ML solutions
• Clear communicator who can explain complex models and systems to both technical and non-technical teams
• Passion for gaming and curiosity about player behavior

Will Be a Plus:

• Experience building user-level LTV forecasting models
• Background in recommender systems, personalization, or contextual bandits
• Familiarity with MLOps practices and tools
• Experience with ETL/orchestration frameworks (dbt, Dataform, Airflow)
• We run on GCP — experience with BigQuery, Vertex AI, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Run/Functions

What we offer:

• 100% payment of vacations and sick leave [20 days vacation, 22 days sick leave], medical insurance.
• A team of the best professionals in the games industry.
• Flexible schedule [start of work from 8 to 11, 8 hours/day].
• L&D center with courses.
• Self-learning library, access to paid courses.
• Stable payments.

The recruitment process:

CV review Interview with TA manager Interview with Head of Analytics Final Enterview Job offer

If you share our goals and values and are eager to join a team of dedicated professionals, we invite you to take the next step.

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