We are hiring a Lead Data Scientist for our Studio Data and Insights Data Science team to join our current roster of lead data scientists. SDI Data Science partners with all of EA's game studios to offer data science products and solutions. For this Lead Data Scientist role we are looking for applied and practical expertise in one or more of the following areas:
- Recommendations
- Game Balancing/Skill Assessment
- ML/AI Engineering Technology
You will bring expertise in the area of AI, ML, and engineering, and promote best practices for one or more of the areas above. You will lead a product pillar devoted to your expertise, shaping data products built for our titles.
What you'll do
- Work directly with game teams/partners (internal clients) to understand their offerings, creating data science products and solutions for their use cases.
- Apply pragmatic solutions to game team opportunities.
- Develop and action on plans to generalize products across titles with our engineering partners.
- Review team projects within your pillar, providing guidance and being accountable for the success of the project.
- Promote data science projects and products throughout the organization.
- Ensure sound methodology and experimental design so that experiments produce relevant conclusions.
- Engage with the Data Science leads group as a member, guiding long-term strategies for the whole team.
- Design, improve and work with our data pipeline that transfers and processes petabytes of data using tools, such as: AWS, S3, Kubernetes, GCP, Python, Apache Kafka, Ruby & Hive.
- Build data manipulation, processing, and visualization routines to aid in your modeling efforts.
- Use your statistical and computational knowledge to build algorithms for calculating variances, state predictions, and find trends.
- Assist game teams and data teams in making important decisions.
About EA
We exist to inspire the world to play. Through innovative technology and immersive storytelling, we deliver new ways of experiencing worlds of interactive entertainment for our millions of players worldwide. Our strength lies in the diversity of our people, combining creativity, innovation and passion. We fully champion inclusive culture, and provide opportunities for growing, learning, and leading that allows for the most impactful and rewarding work of our teams’ careers.
We put our people first, and we make sure they’re taken care of both in and out of the office. As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide dynamic, collaborative and flexible work environments for our teams. Our employees connect through our Employee Resource Groups, which are actively involved in driving business decisions every step of the way. But our support doesn’t end at the workplace—we also encourage a balanced lifestyle with paid time off and new parent leave, free video games, fitness reimbursement and more.
Our goal is to provide a safe, respectful and inspiring workplace for all of our employees. Through our diversity, equity, inclusion and social responsibility programs, we’re doing the work to give everyone the space to be their full selves while giving back to our community. We’re looking for problem-solvers, game-changers, innovators, dreamers, doers—people that are ready to move the needle and build on our success. As our industry accelerates, we aren’t just keeping up—we’re staying ahead of the game.
Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Electronic Arts also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
