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We have big plans and would be thrilled for you to consider us.\nplaySTUDIOS Vietnam is a Vietnam subsidiary of the United States-based leading mobile & social games company playSTUDIOS Inc.\nWe are backed by dominant, multi-billion-dollar market leaders in the leisure and video game industries and a collection of powerhouse venture capital firms. Our founding team has over a century of collective gaming experience.\nWe are building a best-of-breed development and operations group and are looking for top-tier talent who can help us create and optimize high-quality games in the rapidly evolving social and mobile gaming markets.\nOur company has high growth rates, with an established company's stability and financial security. We guarantee high-quality work, AAA entertainment brand exposure, competitive compensation, and great benefits.\nWe're thrilled to share:\nOur website and portfolio game: https://www.playstudios.com/\nOur core game, let's try: https://www.myvegas.com/\nOur Vietnam's Facebook page: https://bom.so/A6A5VO\nOur Vietnam's LinkedIn page: https://bom.so/04caqr\nABOUT THE ROLE\nThe AI Automation Engineer (Senior/Lead) drives automation, builds operational tools, and applies AI-assisted workflows to improve engineering productivity. Working cross-functionally, the role aims to eliminate repetitive work, streamline operations, and reduce the cost of running live games through scalable automation and intelligent tooling.\n\nRESPONSIBILITIES\n1. Technical Leadership & Team Development:\nSenior level:\nLead the design, development, and implementation of AI-powered automation solutions.\nProvide technical guidance and mentorship to team members through code reviews and knowledge sharing.\nContribute to engineering standards, documentation, and best practices for automation tooling and AI-assisted workflows.\nEnsure solutions are scalable, maintainable, well-documented, and reusable across projects and titles.\nLeadlevel:\nLead and mentor a team of AI Automation Engineers.\nProvide technical direction and code-level leadership across automation initiatives.\nDefine and maintain engineering standards, processes, and best practices for automation and AI-assisted workflows.\nDrive the development of scalable, maintainable, and reusable solutions across multiple titles.\nSupport team growth, hiring, and capability development as the studio expands.\n2. Hands-on Automation Engineering\nDesign and implement automation tools and scripts that eliminate repetitive operational work.\nBuild reusable operational tooling that can be used across multiple game teams.\nCollaborate directly with Game Engineers and technical owners to automate operational tasks.\nMaintain and evolve internal tooling used for LiveOps operations, QA workflows, and release support.\n3. AI-Assisted Engineering and Tooling\nPromote practical adoption of AI-assisted development tools within automation workflows.\nExperiment with AI-driven approaches to automation generation, log analysis, and operational diagnostics.\nIdentify opportunities where AI can improve debugging, operational insight, and engineering productivity.\nWork with technical leadership to ensure responsible and effective use of AI across the studio.\n4. Operational Efficiency and Workflow Improvements\nIdentify and reduce manual work across LiveOps, QA, and operational processes through targeted automation.\nDesign and implement scalable workflows and reusable tooling to improve consistency and engineering leverage across titles.\nAddress root causes of operational issues and implement preventive improvements to reduce recurrence and increase reliability.\n5. Monitoring and Operational Visibility\nImprove monitoring, logging, and diagnostics to provide clear and reliable visibility into production systems.\nBuild tools that enable engineers to quickly understand system behavior and investigate issues in production.\nStrengthen observability and alerting practices to enable faster detection and more effective troubleshooting of incidents.\n6. Collaboration with DevOps and Platform Teams\nWork with the central DevOps team when automation interacts with deployment pipelines or infrastructure systems.\nCollaborate with the platform teams when automation interacts with shared services, internal tools or platform capabilities.\nEnsure studio automation tooling aligns with existing platform and DevOps standards.\nFocus primarily on automation and engineering tooling, rather than infrastructure ownership.\nREQUIREMENTS\n4+ years of experience in software engineering, developer tooling, or automation.\nGood command of written and spoken English.\nStrong scripting or programming skills (at least one of the following: C#, Java, Python, TypeScript, or similar).\nExperience building automation tools, developer tooling, or operational systems. \nExperience using AI-assisted development tools as part of engineering workflows. (Claude Code, OpenCode, LangChain, Codex, Devin...)\nStrong understanding of software development workflows and engineering productivity tools.\nPreferred Experience\nExperience mentoring or leadingengineers in a technical capacity. \nExperience working on live products or operational systems.\nExperience building internal developer tools or automation frameworks.\nExposure to monitoring, logging, and operational diagnostics tooling.\nBasic understanding of CI/CD systems or cloud infrastructure.\nAdditional Notes:\nInfrastructure and DevOps responsibilities are primarily handled by the central DevOps team. Experience in these areas is helpful but not required.\n You may be expected to complete a test as part of the interviewing procedure.\nBENEFITS AND PERKS\nGlobal Collaboration: Work directly with diverse international teams from Hong Kong, Singapore, Israel, Serbia, the US, and more.\nPeople-centered Culture: Where individual effort, shared dedication, and true teamwork come together to craft games of outstanding creativity, aesthetic value, and entertainment quality.\nGrowth & Learning: Unlock unlimited growth opportunities through English classes, an online learning platform, specialized technical training led by global experts, and the opportunity to have hands-on experience with game products reaching up to 100 million players worldwide.\nComprehensive Healthcare: Receive Bao Viet Premium healthcare coverage of up to 1.2 billion VND/person/year for yourself, plus attractive coverage for all your dependents.\nInsurance & PIT (Personal Income Tax): Receive 100% salary during probation, with full Social, Health, and Unemployment Insurance from day one. All compulsory insurance is fully covered by the company - you only contribute Personal Income Tax.\nReward & Recognition: 13-month salary/year; performance-based bonus; discretionary bonus; attractive employee referral bonus program.\n Flexible work time: Work Monday to Friday with two remote days (Tuesday and Wednesday). No attendance tracking - we focus on performance management rather than time management.\nAnnual & Sick Leave: Annual leave of 15 days in the 1st year, 17 days in the 2nd year, and 20 days from the 3rd year onwards, plus 5 days of sick leave per year.\nPerks & Comforts: Fresh, delicious, free meals served daily; high-end workstation with laptop and monitors provided; and an equipment allowance of 4,500,000 VND to choose your preferred keyboard, mouse, headset, and more.\nEngagement: Enjoy charity initiatives, team-building, company trips, year-round events, and company-supported clubs like board games, badminton, soccer, and ping pong.\n Other benefits: Financial support for sickness or funeral (up to 2,000,000 VND/person), and for birthdays, marriage, childbirth, or public holidays (up to 500,000 VND/person).","description_format":"text","description_chars":7862,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Flexible schedule","Growth opportunities"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Mobile Games"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-08T21:07:53Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.5,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":62,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-10T06:52:35Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/playstudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/playstudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-10T07:34:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":17646,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-11T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":179579},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=179579"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fplaystudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":2,"usd":0.2},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fplaystudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fplaystudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/playstudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fplaystudios-ai-automation-engineer-seniorlead"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":555633}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"playstudios.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":555633},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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