Data Scientist [mobile games]

EU + Non EU, Ukraine (Remote)

Join Burny Games β€” a Ukrainian company that creates mobile puzzle games. 

πŸ”₯ Our mission: To challenge players’ minds every day with innovative, high-quality gaming experiences.

What makes us proud?

  • In just two years, we've launched three successful mobile games worldwide: Playdoku, Colorwood Sort, Colorwood Words. We have paused some projects to focus on making our games better and helping our team improve.
  • Our games have been enjoyed by over 10 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: iOS, Android

πŸš€ Top Titles:
🎨 Colorwood Sort β€“ #1 sorting game
πŸ“ Colorwood Words β€“ made in 71 days
🧩 Colorwood Blocks β€“ unique art & gameplay
🧩 Playdoku – our first top game

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 game development or consumer apps businesses].
  • Strong background in statistical modelling, 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 behaviour.

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 β€” 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 β†’ Interview with TA manager β†’ Interview with Head of Analytics β†’ Final Interview β†’ 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.

Data Scientist [mobile games]

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Data Scientist [mobile games]

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