Data Science Intern (Analytics), 6-month internship

About Tencent Games

Tencent Games was established in 2003. We are a leading global platform for game development, operations, and publishing, and the largest online game community in China.

Tencent Games has developed and operated over 140 games, providing cross-platform interactive entertainment experiences for more than 800 million users in over 200 countries and regions worldwide. Honor of Kings, PUBG MOBILE, and League of Legends are some of our most popular titles.

We actively promote the development of the esports industry, work with global partners to build an open, collaborative, and symbiotic industrial ecosystem, and create high-quality digital life experiences for players.

What the Role Entails

• Analyze 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.
• 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 robust data scraping and collection pipelines (web crawling, API ingestion, data wrangling) to gather competitive intelligence, market signals, and player/community data at scale.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in data science, machine learning, and generative AI, and apply these technologies to innovate in gaming applications.
• Engage in technical knowledge sharing, documentation, and cross-team collaboration.

Who We Look For

• Pursuing an M.S. or Ph.D. degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Math, Economics, Computer Science, Machine Learning, etc.
• Experience in statistical analysis (probabilities, hypothesis testing, multivariate analysis, time series analysis, predictive modeling, A/B experiments, etc.).
• Experience building complex data products and machine learning systems on large datasets is preferred.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL. A solid understanding of modern AI/LLM and hands-on experience applying them to real-world problems is a plus.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, execution capabilities, and keen business acumen.
• Passion for games and the gaming industry. Gaming experience in FPS/TPS titles is a plus.

Equal Employment Opportunity at Tencent

As an equal opportunity employer, we firmly believe that diverse voices fuel our innovation and allow us to better serve our users and the community. We foster an environment where every employee of Tencent feels supported and inspired to achieve individual and common goals.