Game Mathematician
Description
Playtech's Psiclone Games is looking for a Game Mathematician with excellent communication, critical thinking and attention to detail. Press play and let us design future technology together!
Responsibilities
- Brainstorming new game ideas and evaluating feasibility.
- Creating spreadsheets and bespoke tools to model the maths for these games.
- Collaborate with the developers to ensure that the maths models are correctly implemented and debugging any errors.
- Creatively balancing the games to provide good gameplay experiences, to create profitable and successful slots, and to categorise and verify the maths.
- Playing and researching games, reporting on current trends.
- Liaising with maths providers within internal companies.
- Representing the mathematical creation and output for Psiclone games to various external companies and internal Playtech sister companies.
- Researching and analysing successful slot games, features and balances, to make data-driven decisions.
- Reviewing existing models and adapting these for specific markets.
- Producing documentation detailing the implementation and theory of the models.
- Drawing conclusions from historical statistical analysis on slot statistics, profits, rankings and player behaviour.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Maths, Computer Science, or related field
- Proficiency with Excel formulas
- Good knowledge of probability and statistical modelling
- The ability to produce and maintain technical documents
- The ability to clearly communicate concepts and methods
- Critical thinking and attention to detail
Benefits
- Experience with a programming language (C++/C#…)
- Knowledge of Excel VBA
- Familiarity with Monte Carlo methods and Markov Chains
- Experience in statistical data analysis
- An interest in gambling (slots or table games) or prior experience in the gambling industry
About PlayTech
Playtech plc is one of the world's largest gambling technology companies, providing software, platforms and content to online and land-based operators. Founded in 1999 and registered in the Isle of Man, it supplies casino, live casino, sportsbook, bingo and poker products, along with its IMS player-management platform. The company also runs B2C operations, most notably the Snaitech business in Italy. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Playtech employs thousands of people across offices worldwide.
