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Sr Data Scientist - FIFA

EA SPORTS is one of the leading sports entertainment brands in the world, with top-selling video game franchises, award-winning interactive technology, fan programs, and cross-platform digital experiences.

The Challenge Ahead:

As a Senior Data Scientist you will help improve our FIFA franchise through the personalization of the player experience. You are a technically-oriented individual, knowledgeable of how to use data and experimentation to solve product problems. You report to a central analytics and data science team, but work directly with producers, designers, product managers on the FIFA team to directly influence in-game content to create an ever more dynamic player journey in our titles.

What a Data Scientist does at EA:

• Translate business and product questions into ethical and mathematically sound experiments.
• Understand how to use principles of machine learning to help learn and tune in game experiences while staying aware of their consequences.
• Draft technical solutions when presented with a problem to a less technical audience during planning exercises before development.
• Prototype new technology that fits use cases/problems and validates against success criteria.
• Support peers with technical reviews, ensuring quality coding and deployment practices.

Requirements

• MS or greater in a field such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Statistics.
• 5 or more years of experience in data science, analytics, or a related area in a consumer products-oriented industry.
• SQL skills, including experience querying complex data sets using platforms like Apache Hive or BigQuery.
• Experience developing statistical and machine learning models using languages like Python, R, or Ruby.
• Experience with several methods of model deployment for use in production software.
• Knowledge of programming best practices, version control, and automation.
• Experience presenting and prioritizing with people at multiple levels of business and technical expertise.

We love to celebrate our great perks like comprehensive health and benefit packages, tuition reimbursement, 401k with company match, of course, free video games and more!