Senior ML Engineer
gamedistrict
- Lahore, Pakistan
- Senior Level
- Posted
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.
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