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Senior Data Scientist (Anti-Cheat), Electronic Arts, Inc., Redwood City, CA. Define and implement core metrics in alignment with EA's Positive Play Charter. Ensure that all EA products are developed with the security and gameplay integrity. 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. Work with the anti-cheat development team in developing statistical models and analytical reports to keep EA games fair, fun, and free of cheaters. Use data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Research and Build (develop/test/validate) new statistical/ML models to support and enhance our anti-cheat capabilities. Develop 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. Telecommuting permitted. (SDSAC-S-103-CARC)

40 hrs/week, Mon-Fri, 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Salary Range: $140,700 - $204,700/yr.

EA offers benefits incl. PTO, medical/dental/vision insurance & 401(k) to eligible E’ees. Certain roles eligible for bonus & equity.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Data Science, Statistics, Analytics, Mathematics, Physics or a related quantitative field and three (3) years of data science/engineering experience.

Qualifying experience must include three (3) years in each of the following skills (which may be gained concurrently):

• Data scripting languages, including Python, R, and SQL;
• Data analytics/visualization tools, including: PrestoSQL, Tableau, PowerBI, Looker, or Shiny R;
• Building data workflows and pipelines using tools such as Airflow, Vertex AI, ML model monitor, Dataproc, Pyspark or similar;
• Define and implement new ML practices and methodologies; and
• Agile development practices and Git.

Up to 10% travel (domestic) possible based on business need.

To apply, please send resumes to eajobs@ea.com. Must reference job code SDSAC-S-103-CARC to be considered.