Principal AI Research Engineer

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Job Description:

We are looking for a passionate and creative Principal AI/ML Research Engineer! Someone who is interested in pushing the boundaries of machine learning with a demonstrable ability to apply their skills be it technical or behavioural practically in order to generate business value. We are looking for a candidate that has built a good intuition in machine learning methodologies and practices when applying them in different domains.

Your role within our Kingdom:

Youll be part of AI Labs a research team within Kings AI Center of Excellence. AI Labs support business to solve communal modelling challenges in machine learning use cases as well as explore state of the art to unlock opportunities to bring value to the company. As a member of AI Labs you will be working closely with other Research Engineers in the Labs focusing on mid term or long term research projects as well as working with ML Engineers and Data Scientists supporting them to develop and operationalize machine learning (ML) models as part of Kings central machine learning initiatives. Our team investigates different research areas on automation at scale for game content player experience optimization AI trustworthiness and new emerging technologies.

As an Applied ML Researcher at King you will be researching prototyping and implementing to advance our games and business applications to the next level by using the latest research in the field of ML including deep neural networks for supervised unsupervised and reinforcement learning generative models self-supervised learning models and more conventional ML methods. With over 250 million monthly active users and 50 billion events being uploaded daily youll really have a lot of data to play with. Together with your team members youll get to learn on the job every day!

Skills to create thrills

So what about you You probably have hands-on experience in various ML projects; Or maybe you have been conducting applied research in the area of machine learning in academia for a few years and curiosity on real-world challenges took over and you moved to industry to solve problems through automation and AI/ML solutions. You like mentoring enjoy experimenting with data and new modelling approaches and technologies all to build top-class solutions.

Minimum requirements:

• Proven research track record in Computer Science Mathematics Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Data Science or other related fields

• 5 years of post-graduate academic or industrial experience in the field of machine learning or AI

• Previous mentoring or supervision experience

• Working experience of Tensorflow Pytorch Keras or similar frameworks

• Experience in applying machine learning in real-world applications

• General machine learning expertise i.e. regression classification and clustering algorithms time-series analysis Bayesian methods self-supervised methods and generative models

• Professional habits around model validation testing and tracking

• Strong communication skills

• A passion for analytics and diving into as well as experiencing the products on which you work

• A passion to bring impact to our games through your applied ai research work

Bonus skills:

Have any sweet experiences with one or some of the following areas Then we sure like to hear about them!

• Prototype-to-production engineering skills in Python including standard methodologies such as proper documentation library packaging versioning testing and task scheduling

• Previous experience in representation learning

• Experience mentoring AI/ML Researcher Engineers or AI/ML Engineers in a team

• Contribution to open-source projects

• Experience in distributed data processing and modelling

• Experience building data pipelines and ML pipelines

• Familiarity with a cloud solution - experience in GCP data products is preferred (BigQuery Cloud Storage Dataflow Pub/Sub to name a few)

• Knowledge in SQL

• We know that you are into games on some level (casual console board games Uno etc.).

As a person:

You enjoy working together with our team we are constantly collaborating with people in other teams so your ability to serve others is key to success. If you are also passionate about learning new things and have a great sense of humour you will fit in just fine!

Location:

Since the team is based in Stockholm we prefer that you work from Stockholm.

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 worlds 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 by following us on LinkedIn @lifeatkingon Instagram or @kinggameson X.