Data Scientist, Gameplay

August 3

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Epic Games

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Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology$1. .$1

Game Development • Game Engine • Publishing • Unreal Engine • Real-Time Technology

1001 - 5000

Description

• Epic Games is looking for a Data Scientist to join the Gameplay Analytics team • Apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, insights, and predictive models • Partner with design, game development, and product management counterparts to identify opportunities for our First Party Games • Work directly with programming and data platform teams to properly scope and capture the data required • Transform raw data into insights and production metrics, reports, and models • Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of metrics and align them with long-term ecosystem growth • Work with design, product, and analytics teams to design, test, and learn from experiments

Requirements

• At least 3 years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games • Strong product intuition and demonstrated background in influencing products by applying data and measurement to drive alignment • Experience with working with development teams to instrument data and ensure continued data quality • Experience with writing efficient and scalable SQL over billions of rows; familiarity with distributed computing using Spark (Scala or PySpark) is a plus • Experience in data visualization (Tableau or similar) • Development experience in Python analytics ecosystem • Familiarity with supporting operational processes including: Code version control (Github or similar), Orchestration (Airflow) • Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing techniques • Advanced statistical training and a thorough understanding of the associated strengths and weaknesses of different statistical approaches is a plus • Experience in a “full-stack” environment - data file ingest, ETL, data storage interaction, application development, communication of results to storage systems, code version control is a plus

Benefits

• 100% benefits coverage for employees and dependents • Supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, life and AD&D insurance • Long-term disability insurance and weekly indemnity (short-term disability) • Retirement savings plan with competitive employer match • Employee assistance program and mental well-being program including free therapy and coaching