Senior AI Data & Analytics Engineer

Goodgame Studios; Hamburg; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Goodgame Studios is seeking an AI-native analytics leader to design the data foundation for a new mobile game. You will define how gameplay, monetization, attribution, and player behavior data are collected, structured, and transformed into trusted insights and automated reporting.

You will build AI-powered analytics tools, set the technical direction, and drive the evolution of analytics from concept to production. Expect to work at the intersection of AI, analytics, and gaming.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience building analytics or data-driven systems in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows and AI coding tools in real-world projects.
• Strong Python and SQL skills; ability to read and verify code you didn’t write.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the end-to-end gameplay analytics ecosystem.
• Define tracking, storage, processing, and reporting architecture.
• Own data correctness and make judgement calls when quality checks flag anomalies.
• Build AI-driven automated reporting, dashboards, and insight-generation workflows.
• Evaluate and implement AI tools, agents, and workflows to improve speed and depth.
• Review AI-generated code and analytics on critical paths before they reach production.
• Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.

Skills

Python

SQL

LLMs & Agents

Data Modeling

Cloud Platforms

Data Quality

Production Analytics

AI-assisted engineering

Tools

MCP servers

Prompts & Contexts

Subagents / Skills

Job description

Support us in Agentic Analytics for a New Mobile Game!

We're not looking for someone who has "built a dashboard". We're looking for someone who already uses agentic workflows as a core part of how they work: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, custom agents, MCP servers, skills, planning loops, review gates, and AI-assisted engineering. Someone with strong opinions on which AI workflows hold up in production and which fall apart when real decisions depend on the numbers.

You'll bring that practice to the AI-native analytics ecosystem of a brand-new mobile game. You'll define how gameplay, monetization, attribution, and player behavior data are collected, structured, and transformed into trustworthy insights, automated reporting, and AI-powered analytics tools.

You will work at the intersection of AI, analytics, and game development, building the data foundation of a new game from scratch. You'll define its technical direction and drive the evolution of its analytics and AI capabilities from concept to production.

Unlike a traditional analytics role, you'll use agents to dramatically increase your throughput while remaining the architect, reviewer, and final owner of correctness. The agents generate volume; you provide judgement.

YOUR MISSION

Build the Data Foundation

• Design and operate the end-to-end gameplay analytics ecosystem.
• Define tracking, storage, processing, and reporting architecture.
• Own data correctness and make judgement calls when quality checks flag anomalies.

Drive AI-Native Analytics

• Build the semantic layer that translates raw gameplay data into validated gameplay and business concepts.
• Develop AI-driven automated reporting, dashboards, and insight-generation workflows.
• Evaluate and implement AI tools, agents, and workflows that improve analytics speed, reliability, and depth.
• Review AI-generated code and analytics on critical paths before they reach production.
• Identify opportunities, risks, anomalies, and trends across gameplay and player behavior.
• Support product, balancing, design, and leadership teams with data-driven recommendations.
• Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights.

Set the Agentic Bar

• Help define how the wider engineering organization adopts agentic practices.
• Establish standards for tooling, review processes, quality gates, and what "done" means when agents generate most of the implementation.

YOUR BACKSTORY

• Several years of experience building analytics or data-driven systems in production environments, ideally in gaming or mobile.
• Deep comfort with LLMs, agents, and AI-assisted engineering workflows in production environments.
• Hands-on experience using agentic workflows and AI coding tools in real-world projects.
• The ability to discuss concretely how you:
• structure prompts and context,
• manage autonomous and multi-agent workflows, including when to intervene,
• use MCP servers, custom tools, skills, or subagents,
• review AI-generated code and queries without becoming a bottleneck.
• Strong experience working with behavioral, transactional, or event-based datasets and deriving actionable insights from complex data.
• Strong Python and SQL skills. You read and own code you did not write and verify outputs independently rather than blindly trusting generated results.
• Experience designing scalable data architectures, pipelines, data models, dashboards, analytical frameworks, or automated insight-generation systems.
• Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms and storage.
• Strong analytical decomposition skills and the ability to translate ambiguous business questions into precise analytical problems.
• Strong instinct for data quality, system reliability, and independent verification. You don't simply accept whatever the agent produces.
• Comfortable operating independently, driving technical initiatives from concept to production, and owning outcomes rather than tasks.
• Passion for gaming.

NICE TO HAVE

• Gaming or mobile analytics experience (monetization, attribution, retention, LiveOps, economy).
• Event-driven and streaming data architectures.
• Real-time telemetry or anti-cheat / anomaly-detection systems.
• Published or shared work on agentic workflows – blog posts, OSS subagents/skills, internal tooling you've open-sourced.

Expect to walk us through an agentic workflow you've actually built and used – the specs and context you feed it, how you structure the loop, where it breaks, how you catch it, and what you'd never let an agent do unsupervised on data people make decisions from. Bring screen-shares, repos, prompts, whatever shows the real thing. We're more interested in your judgement and battle scars than in polished slides.

WHO WE ARE

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 200 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.