Associate Tech Director (ML - Levels)

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Devops

Job Summary

Job Description

As Associate Tech Director, ML – Levels at King, you'll architect and own machine learning infrastructure supporting level-related systems across their games. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining the ML platform for applications like automated playtesting and content generation; building scalable ML pipelines; partnering with game teams to ensure platform capabilities meet their needs; translating complex requirements into technical solutions; and working hands-on with infrastructure (Python, Airflow, Kubernetes, GCP, etc.). You'll champion engineering best practices and inform strategic technical decisions, staying current with ML tooling and DevOps.
Must have:
  • 8+ years in software engineering and ML systems
  • ML Ops, infrastructure, or platform engineering focus
  • Proficient in Python and data orchestration
  • Experience with cloud-native ML stacks (preferably GCP)
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills
Good to have:
  • Experience in shared services or platform roles
  • Exposure to level design or game content systems
  • Familiarity with simulation, generative models, or reinforcement learning

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Role Overview

As Associate Tech Director, ML – Levels, you will act as the technical owner and architect for machine learning infrastructure and capabilities that support level-related systems across King’s games. Operating within the Shared Tech organization, your mission is to enable scalable, production-ready ML systems that empower game teams to deliver smarter, faster, and more balanced level experiences.

Your Mission
 

ML Infrastructure & Systems Design

  • Design, implement, and maintain the ML platform and tooling that powers level-related applications — such as automated playtesting,  level validation, and content generation workflows.
  • Build robust, scalable, and observable ML pipelines for training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.

Technical Alignment with Games

  • Serve as the ML infrastructure partner for game teams working on levels, ensuring that platform capabilities meet their evolving needs in speed, scale, and flexibility.
  • Translate complex requirements from designers, data scientists, and engineers into technical solutions that are broadly usable across titles.
  • Act as a bridge between Shared Tech and game teams to align technical architecture and promote reuse of shared capabilities.

Execution + Vision

  • Work hands-on with infrastructure (Python, Airflow, Kubernetes, GCP, etc.) to prototype and productionize ML capabilities.
  • Champion engineering best practices for reliability, observability, CI/CD, versioning, and testing across ML workflows.
  • Inform strategic technical decisions by staying up to date with developments in ML tooling, deployment frameworks, and DevOps for ML.

What You Bring

  • Proven (8+ years) of experience in software engineering and ML systems, with a focus on ML Ops, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
  • Deep knowledge of ML development lifecycles and tooling: model packaging, reproducibility, A/B testing frameworks, and real-time/near-real-time deployment.
  • Proficient in Python with production-grade software development habits; strong knowledge of data orchestration (Airflow, Kubeflow, or equivalent).
  • Experience with cloud-native ML stacks (preferably GCP) and distributed data processing (e.g. BigQuery, Dataflow, Spark).
  • Strong cross-functional skills — you’re able to work across technical and product teams and guide ML platform decisions that balance flexibility, scale, and speed.

Nice to Have

  • Experience working in shared services or platform roles supporting multiple product teams.
  • Exposure to level design or game content systems, even indirectly, is a plus.
  • Familiarity with simulation, generative models, or reinforcement learning workflows (from an infra perspective).
  • You love building tools that unblock others and make ML experimentation more scalable and fun.

About King

With a mission of Making the World Playful, King is a leading interactive entertainment company with more than 20 years of history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry, including the world-famous Candy Crush franchise, as well as other mobile game hits such as Farm Heroes Saga. King games are played by more than 200 million monthly active users. King, part of Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), has Kingsters in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Malta. More information can be found at  or by following us on ,  on Instagram, or  on X.

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About The Company

We bring moments of magic to hundreds of millions of people every single day. We create unforgettable games that are loved around the world. We take the art and science of gaming to the next level through curiosity for the unexplored, passion for games, respect for each other, and love for our players. Who we areKing is a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, with people all around the world playing one or more of our games, including franchises such as Candy Crush, Farm Heroes, Pet Rescue and Bubble Witch. We have 249 million monthly active users as of fourth quarter 2019 across web, social and mobile platforms. King was acquired by Activision Blizzard Inc. (Nasdaq ATVI) in February 2016 and operates as an independent unit of the company. Our passionMaking great games is incredibly challenging but we’ve proven it can be done… and we see a world of possibilities ahead.

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