Working Student AI Balancing Machine Learning Engineer

Are you excited about working at the frontier of AI-assisted game development and helping shape balancing workflows powered by modern AI tooling

Join us as a Working Student AI Balancing / Machine Learning Engineer and help build the next generation of AI-native balancing pipelines and live balancing workflows for a new entry in Goodgames Empire franchise.

Youll work alongside producers QA game designers and engineers of an established Empire-franchise team with a 200 million-player IP.

The role offers hands-on experience at the intersection of AI balancing live operations and game production in a highly iterative environment.

YOUR MISSION

• Support balancing and simulation work across core game systems: heroes troops economy progression and events

• Help improve and operate our AI-assisted balancing toolchain and workflows

• Build scripts automations and ML-supported workflows to improve balancing efficiency and iteration speed

• Analyze balancing data simulation outputs and player behavior signals to support balancing decisions

• Work closely with game design QA engineering and production on balancing topics and tooling improvements

• Help document and structure balancing processes prompts datasets and workflows for scalable AI-assisted production

YOUR BACKSTORY

• Currently enrolled in Data Science AI/ML Mathematics Game Design or a related field

• Strong interest in AI-native workflows automation LLM tooling or machine learning applications

• Comfortable working with modern AI tools such as Claude Code Cursor ChatGPT or similar

• Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail and structured thinking

• Interest in strategy games and balancing systems

Nice to have

• Experience with game balancing simulations data analysis or modding

• Experience building small ML projects agents automations or personal AI workflows

Who we are

Goodgame Studios

Goodgame Studios is a leading free-to-play online games development company active on web and mobile platforms. We self-publish our games in-house and have all relevant professions under one roof: Game Development Quality Assurance Community Management and Customer Support to Business Development Marketing Analytics and Central IT services. These departments work hand in hand to provide quality gaming experiences to over 500 million registered users worldwide.

With a rich pool of talented employees from more than 40 nations we are among the largest German employers in the gaming software industry.

Stillfront

Stillfront is a global gaming company. We develop a wide range of digital games that attract over 50 million players each month. From well-established franchises like Supremacy Big Farm and BitLife to niche games we span many different genres including strategy simulation RPG and action and casual and mash-up games.

We believe gaming can be a force for good. And we want to create a gaming universe that is digital affordable equal and sustainable. So we focus on developing games that are all about having a rewarding hobby a great social experience or a strategic challenge.

Our HQ is in Stockholm Sweden but our game development is done by teams and studios all over the world. Our main markets are the US Japan MENA Germany and the UK. Were proud that our company shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm.