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Senior Data Scientist

SENIOR DATA SCIENTIST

The Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team ensures that all EA products are developed with the security and gameplay integrity of our players as a top priority. We partner with both platform development teams and game studios to ensure that security and gameplay integrity issues are identified and resolved throughout the application and service lifecycle.

You will be a member of the Secure Product Engineering & Anti-Cheat Response team, reporting to the Anti-Cheat Development Manager. You will work with the anti-cheat development team in developing excellent models to keep our games fair, fun, and free of cheaters.

RESPONSIBILITIES

As a Senior Data Scientist on our anti-cheat team, you will be a part of a global security team and will work with game and central tech development teams to:

• Research and Build new statistical and machine learning models to enhance our anti-cheat capabilities
• Develop core metrics aligned with EA's Positive Play Charter
• Create automated dashboards and other self-service reporting tools for our partner game teams
• Catalog existing available data sets, categorize their value, and suggest new features to implement to expand and enhance the quality of available data
• Establish best practices for the anti-cheat team to follow as we grow the data science field within the gameplay integrity team.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in quantitative/statistics-related fields and 6 or more years relevant professional experience
• 3+ years experience defining and implementing new machine learning practices and methodologies
• Great at machine learning code stacks and analytics/visualization tools, such as PrestoSQL, Tableau, or Looker
• Passion for online gaming and interest in the cheating problem space
• Experience with Agile development practices and Git (or related version control technologies)