Data Engineering Intern (Gamedev)

TL;DR

Data Engineering Intern (Gamedev): Building high-volume data pipelines and maintaining data infrastructure for mobile gaming with an accent on supporting AI initiatives and refining player experience through data. Focus on data backfills, ensuring data quality, and assisting with foundational data work for AI agents.

Location: You’ll spend about 2 days a week collaborating with the team at our Espoo office.

Company

hirify.global is part of the SEGA family and world famous for our flagship IP Angry Birds.

What you will do

• Building high-volume pipelines that handle both batch and real-time data
• Maintaining our modern data stack, including our data lake and warehousing platforms
• Tackling operational tasks like data backfills and ensuring data quality monitoring
• Collaborating across teams on development projects that directly support decision-making and enhance the player experience
• Exploring the future of AI by assisting with foundational data work for context management and AI agents
• Sharing your progress and ideas actively with the team.

Requirements

• You’re currently pursuing a BSc or MSc in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
• You have hands-on experience with Python and feel comfortable using it to solve technical problems
• You’re enthusiastic about using AI tools (like Claude Code) to boost your productivity
• You understand the basics of data wrangling with SQL and are eager to apply it to complex, global-scale data volumes
• You enjoy working together with others, sharing your work openly, and seeking advice
• Excellent English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Python data processing libraries and ETL tools like PySpark
• Experience writing analytical SQL queries to find insights in large datasets
• Exposure to cloud providers (like AWS) and data technologies (for example Athena, Glue, EMR, orchestration tools).

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities or conditions in our working environment and job application procedures.
• Committed to continuously improving workplace accessibility.