As a part of Rapid Prototyping 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 increase our analytical tasks, he will bring a new knowledge and experience to the team. As a subject matter expert, you will be working in close collaboration with game teams to identify, prototype and implement solutions to change the game production and player experience.
We are looking for a new team member with strong interpersonal skills and a combination of analytical skills, intellectual curiosity and accountability.

What will you do?

Transform the queries of game designers, marketing managers and other specialists into analytical studies and inform business drivers on key takeaways.
Analyze data and apply researching, designing, implementing, and deploying full-stack scalable data analytics vision and machine learning solutions to challenge various business issues
Prepare analytical reports in a simple, understandable way for a business or technical audience.
Develop specifications for created models for further automation.
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.

Responsibilities:

Interpret business need and transform it into a technical solution.
Design, prototype, and implement advanced machine learning algorithms to help improve player experiences. Work with engineering team to implement robust processes in real time.
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 that provide insights and direction for overall game feature design and level design.
Develop tools and processes that will help data scientists and stakeholders more efficiently generate data insight through our very rich game data.
Check and debug any data-related issues to ensure accuracy and data integrity.
Build automated data flows.
Work in close collaboration with game teams to identify and prototype projects involving Machine Learning features.
Research, implement and improve Machine Learning solutions to improve our game production processes or players experience.
Collaborate with other data scientists and engineers to industrialize Machine Learning solutions into innovative products and business processes.
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.
Collaborate with worldwide and local stakeholders to share ideas, best practices and methodologies;
Present information using data visualization techniques to both technical and non-technical team members.

What are we looking for?

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (applied mathematics, statistics or data mining)
Ability to work with both structured and unstructured data
Knowledge of probability theory and mathematical statistics
Working knowledge of clustering, discriminant and regression analysis, time series analysis and other data mining and machine learning algorithms
Hands-on experience building and implementing predictive models using machine learning algorithms and tools solving regression and classification problems
Working knowledge of R or Python programming languages
Advanced knowledge of SQL
Teamwork experience
Intermediate or higher level of English and Russian

What additional skills will help you stand out?

Experience with Reinforcement Learning, Generative Adversarial Network, NLP and other state of the art techniques.
Experience with Tensorflow/Pytorch, numpy, scipy, cuda,..
Experience with other programming languages (C++, C#, etc.)
Experience working with big data
Experience with cloud data/data processing services
Working knowledge of BI tools, BA tools or DWH
Advanced data visualization skills
Experience in creating analytical reports in English and Russian
Experience in game development industry

About Wargaming:

Wargaming is an award-winning online game developer and publisher headquartered in Nicosia, Cyprus. Delivering legendary games since 1998, Wargaming has grown to become one of the leaders in the free-to-play MMO gaming industry with 4500+ employees and more than 20 offices globally. Over 200 million players enjoy Wargaming’s titles across all major gaming platforms, including the massively popular World of Tanks and World of Warships.

Working in our company means always having interesting challenges and gaining valuable experience while working with top-class experts.

Take your place among our passionate and experienced team and bring out the best in yourself at Wargaming!