Senior Data Scientist

ANALYTICS

What We Do

Our Data & Analytics teams build powerful stories and visuals that inform the games we make, the technology we develop, and business decisions that drive Epic.

What You'll Do

You will drive the core functions of a personalization engine that provides tailored recommendations to our players in real time. You will partner closely with machine learning engineers, product engineers, product managers, and analytics teams to deliver high quality ML models from R&D through to deployment and continuous experimentation and iteration. You will use your expertise in building and serving robust ML models in real time in a distributed big data environment in both batch and streaming workloads. You will ensure strong experimentation practices and model promotion strategies through rigorous automated monitoring and measurements and heavily parallelized training and prediction pipelines.

In this role, you will

• Develop machine learning models to surface the most appealing & relevant content to players from a vast library of Fortnite islands
• Independently transform raw data into scalable production ML models and partner with backend service teams to integrate those models into Fortnite
• Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of models and iterate constantly to maximize long-term ecosystem growth
• Work with product, and engineering teams to quickly and rigorously design, test, and learn from experiments to improve the product

What we're looking for

• 5+ years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
• Experience writing efficient and scalable ML Pipelines over billions of rows in a distributed computing environment with PySpark batch and streaming
• Expert in Python development practices including version control (GitHub), and comfortable working in a CI/CD environment
• Thoughtful conceptual data modeling and data architecture practices designed for feature stores and model performance monitoring
• Experience working with development teams to instrument data and design event-level metrics to build model features
• Familiarity with supporting operational processes including: code version control (Github or similar), orchestration (Airflow)
• Passion for the gaming industry and optimizing experiences through automation and highly performant models

This role is open to multiple locations across the US (including CA & WA).

Pay Transparency Information

The expected annual base pay range(s) for this position are detailed below. Each base pay range is relevant only for individuals who are residents of or will be expected to work within the specified locale. Compensation varies based on a variety of factors, which include (but aren’t limited to) things such as skills and competencies, qualifications, knowledge, and experience. In addition to base pay, most employees are eligible to participate in Epic’s generous benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs (subject to the terms of those plans or programs).