Senior Data Scientist (ML/DS Platform Team) at King in Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

We are looking for an experienced data scientist to join our Data Science Platform team, which is part of the Machine Learning platform organization. The team consists of a mix of very experienced data scientists and ML Engineers / developers. The team's main focus is providing data scientists in the game teams at King with efficient and reliable tooling to boost their productivity, as well as catering to the explorative phases of building machine learning models. We have a tight collaboration with other teams in the ML organization which have responsibility for the later phases of the machine learning life-cycle.

One of the team’s main product is an internal Notebook platform built on top of the open source Jupyter projects, but extended and customized to integrate with other internal tooling, but also to help data scientists establish good workflows for other aspects of their job, such a CI/CD solutions when building internal packages, training on standard methodologies inside King etc.

We are looking for a great teammate who wants to help to empower our user base, which is counted in the hundreds of users, both by hands on building solutions but also identifying what recommended workflows should be.

We strive to not reinvent the wheel but rather to use existing open source and commercial products when possible, but often also need to write code to properly integrate both internal and external solutions in an effective manner for our users.

Skills to create thrills

Good understanding and hands-on experience with Python
Good understanding of the day to day life of a Data Scientist / ML Engineer
DevOps experience, such as CI/CD solutions and infrastructure as code
Knowledge in how to write services and create reusable libraries
Self-starter with a great drive and a curious and inquisitive mind-set
Willing to step outside your comfort zone to broaden your skills and learn new technologies
Highly collaborative work style and open to share your knowledge, receiving and giving feedback, performing code reviews and so on
You will need to be able to work independently on complex problems and be able to clearly communicate your ideas and solutions.

Bonus points

Knowledge in R
Experience writing plugins/extensions for JupyterLab
SQL and query optimization skills and good understanding of data modeling techniques
Containerizing workloads and running these on Kubernetes (GKE)
Experience with TensorFlow, PyTorch or any other ML framework
Experience with ZenML and/or MLFlow
Google Cloud Platform including BigQuery or experience with other cloud computing provider

About King

At King, we're Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We're the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world's most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren't just crushing it with candies, we're also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was acquired by Microsoft.

A Great Saga Needs All Sorts of Heroes

King strives to be a place where everyone can be their most authentic self. We recognize that diversity, equity and inclusion is a vital and continuous conversation, and that change only happens when we all come together. It’s our mission to build a diverse and inclusive Kingdom for our people, players, and community.

Making the World Playful

Making the World Playful is our mission – it’s the thread that connects our people, our players, and our passion for our games. Let’s face it, who doesn’t love a bit of fun?

Kingsters are seriously playful: creative thinkers who balance art and science to bring moments of magic to millions daily. But our players aren’t the only ones that can level-up. We’re always looking for ways to champion each other and make what’s already great, even better.

So, if this feels like a fun way to spend your days, and you share our passion, our values, and our hunger to shape the future, join us in Making the World Playful.

Applications need to be in English.
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