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Senior ML Engineer

gamedistrict

Responsibilities

  • Lahore, Pakistan (On-site) 💼 Experience: 4–5+ Years 🛠️ Tech Stack: Python, SQL, Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Cloud Data & ML Tools, MLOps About the Role GameDistrict is hiring a Senior ML Engineer / Data Scientist to build machine learning models that help us understand our players and improve our games.
  • You will own projects end to end, from problem framing and data exploration to production deployment and impact measurement.
  • You will work closely with product, marketing, and engineering teams, turning data into decisions across our mobile game portfolio.
  • You'll Do Design, build, and maintain predictive models on player behavior and engagement data.
  • Frame business questions as ML problems and define success metrics with stakeholders.
  • Engineer features from large-scale event and telemetry data.
  • training pipelines, scoring, monitoring, and retraining.
  • Design and analyze experiments to measure the impact of model-driven decisions.
  • Communicate findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Mentor junior team members, review code and models, and help set ML best practices.
  • containers, workflow orchestration, experiment tracking, and model monitoring.

Requirements

  • 4–5+ years in data science or machine learning, with models shipped to production.
  • You'll Bring 4–5+ years of hands-on experience in data science or ML engineering, with at least 2 models you built running in production.
  • Proven work on user-level predictive modeling, such as classification, regression, or time-to-event problems.
  • Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn) and advanced SQL on large datasets.
  • Deep experience with gradient-boosted trees (XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost) and solid grounding in statistics and probabilistic modeling.
  • Sound understanding of model evaluation, calibration, class imbalance, leakage, and validation on time-based splits.
  • A/B test design, statistical significance, and causal methods.
  • Ability to explain technical results to non-technical stakeholders and tie them to business metrics.
  • Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

  • Experience in mobile gaming or other consumer apps.
  • Experience with real-time feature stores and low-latency model serving.
  • Exposure to deep learning for sequential or behavioral data.
  • Experience with Spark or other distributed processing at scale.
  • Publications, Kaggle results, or open-source contributions.