AI Data Specialist - Tokyo

The role

You will build data pipelines, AI-native tools, and automation systems to support Monster Hunter Now and Pikmin Bloom. This role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical systems.

What you will do

• Partner with stakeholders to identify and prioritize data and automation opportunities.
• Build and operate scalable data models, pipelines, semantic layers, and self-service data products.
• Develop production-quality AI-enabled workflows using LLMs, agents, and RAG.
• Partner with Marketing to automate workflows for audience segmentation and campaign performance.
• Safeguard data quality and metric consistency across reporting.
• Create reusable internal tools and documentation for non-technical teams.
• Contribute to the Tokyo Studio AI operating model.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools responsibly by validating code through review and testing.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, machine learning engineering, or a closely related role.
• Expertise designing, building, deploying, and operating production data platforms across cloud data warehousing, data transformation, business intelligence, and workflow orchestration.
• Exceptional SQL skills and strong data-modeling fundamentals.
• Ability to write clean, maintainable production code for pipelines, automation, integrations, and AI-enabled workflows.
• Hands-on experience building AI solutions for real business workflows including LLM applications, AI agents, MCP, RAG, and model evaluation.
• Experience establishing data-quality controls, consistent metric definitions, and responsible AI practices.
• Experience building tools for and working directly with Product, LiveOps, Marketing, UA, CRM, or Game Operations teams.
• Experience building reusable internal data and AI tools and driving adoption.
• Excellent business-level verbal and written communication in both English and Japanese.
• Ability to work from Scopely Explore’s Tokyo office three days per week.

Nice to have

• Enjoy helping teams become more capable by building practical systems.
• Passionate about games and player behavior.
• Experience with free-to-play mobile, live-service, or location-based products.
• Familiarity with real-world or social mobile games such as Monster Hunter Now, Pikmin Bloom, or Pokémon GO.
• Experience modernizing prototype or locally operated data workflows into reliable, scalable, cloud-managed production systems.

About the company

Scopely is a leading video game and global interactive entertainment company. Scopely Explore’s Tokyo Studio builds games that inspire people to explore the real world together.