Live Game Analytics Engineer: AI-Powered Insights

Pocket Worlds; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pocket Worlds in Austin, TX seeks an analytics-focused role owning the full analytics loop for a live-service game. You will frame questions, ensure trustworthy numbers, and build tools that enable repeatable decisions.

The role blends analytics, analytics engineering, and internal tooling, with AI agents handling hands-on work while you provide judgment on measurements and plausibility.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL and Python for analysis.
• Applied statistics with practical sense for noisy data.
• Comfort building and deploying small services and data pipelines.
• Fluency with AI coding agents and associated workflows.
• Familiarity with applied ML (embeddings, similarity, scoring) is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own analytics across content releases, live events, monetization, player behavior from question to recommendation.
• Write complex SQL against large event data.
• Design and evaluate A/B tests and reach sound conclusions when experiments are not clean.
• Reconcile metrics across sources and explain disagreements.
• Use AI agents as leverage for analysis, engineering and reporting.

Skills

SQL

Python

Applied statistics

Small services & data pipelines

AI coding agents

Applied ML (plus)

Job description

Pocket Worlds in Austin, TX seeks an analytics-focused role owning the full analytics loop for a live-service game. You will frame questions, ensure trustworthy numbers, and build tools that enable repeatable decisions.

The role blends analytics, analytics engineering, and internal tooling, with AI agents handling hands-on work while you provide judgment on measurements and plausibility.