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Senior Data Scientist (Anti-Cheat)

What makes us Epic?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

Online Engineering at Epic

What we do

Driving the plug-in power behind Unreal Engine 4. We bridge connections for licensees and our own internal game teams to online services. This allows games like Fortnite to utilize a combination of platform online services as well as Epic’s own online services to build cross-platform online features. Login, parties, voice chat, matchmaking, purchasing, cloud storage, and analytics are just a few examples of online features that our Online Game Services team helps games utilize.

What you’ll do

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join our growing team and work with not only our own titles but a wide variety of games from around the world. You’ll collaborate daily with our anti-cheat development team in the ongoing race against cheats and developing algorithms to detect cheating using statistical methods and machine learning.

In this role, you will

• Help us mitigate cheating in the numerous Easy Anti-Cheat protected games from all game genres
• Develop and implement algorithms based on truly unique data sets to detect cheating in multiplayer online games
• Work together with both anti-cheat and backend teams to bring ideas from a prototype all the way to production
• Work closely with game developers both within Epic and externally

What we’re looking for

• Advanced statistical training and a thorough understanding of the associated strengths and weaknesses of different statistical analysis approaches
• Programming expertise in Python
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with predictive modeling and classification with both classical statistical methods and machine learning
• Experience in data reporting, visualization, and presentation skills
• Experience working with a variety of information systems and data files (structured and unstructured), including large and complex files
• Someone who is user-focused, passionate, scrappy, solutions-focused, and innovative. These traits equal success at Epic and influence everything we do.

Nice to have skills

• Experience working with big data frameworks such as Spark or Flink
• Machine learning and model deploy methodologies
• TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, Dask or similar frameworks

Epic Job + Epic Benefits = Epic Life

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents. We offer free drinks and snacks every day, lunches (2x/week), accident insurance (at work and leisure), life insurance, supplemental medical, dental insurance, public transportation, annual celebrations and game nights for employees and family members.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.