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 Goodgame’s Empire franchise.
You’ll 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.
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
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
Experience with game balancing, simulations, data analysis, or modding
Experience building small ML projects, agents, automations, or personal AI workflows
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 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. We’re proud that our company shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm.
Stillfront is a global games company. We develop and publish digital games that are played by more than 50 million people each month. Our diversified portfolio spans well-established franchises like Big Farm, Jawaker and Supremacy, to smaller, niche games across our different genres. We believe gaming can be a force for good and we want to create a gaming universe that is digital, affordable, equal, and sustainable. 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. Stillfront's shares (SF) are listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.
