Burny Games
Data Scientist
Burny GamesUkraine5 days ago
Full-timeOther
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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