Data Science Intern (Analytics) - 6-Month Internship

About the role

Tencent Games, a global platform for game development, operations and publishing with over 140 games and more than 800 million users, is looking for a 6-month Data Science Intern focused on analytics. The intern works on large-scale datasets to solve complex business and technical challenges in gaming through analytics, forecasting, machine learning, recommender systems, generative AI, experimentation, causal inference and econometrics.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze large-scale datasets to solve business and technical challenges in gaming.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to develop data-driven strategies and implement solutions that enhance business value.
• Deliver actionable business insights to internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain data scraping and collection pipelines (web crawling, API ingestion, data wrangling) to gather competitive intelligence, market signals and player/community data.
• Stay up to date with advances in data science, machine learning and generative AI and apply them to gaming applications.
• Take part in technical knowledge sharing, documentation and cross-team collaboration.

Required profile

• Pursuing a Master's or PhD in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science or Machine Learning.
• Experience in statistical analysis (probabilities, hypothesis testing, multivariate analysis, time series analysis, predictive modeling, A/B experiments).
• Experience building complex data products and machine learning systems on large datasets is preferred.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and execution skills, and keen business acumen.
• Passion for games and the gaming industry; experience in FPS/TPS titles is a plus.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Solid understanding of modern AI/LLMs and hands-on experience applying them is a plus.