# Sr Data Scientist

**Company**: Electronic Arts
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology
**Ticker**: EA
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q173941

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## Description

As a Senior Data Scientist at Electronic Arts, you will lead end-to-end data science initiatives to detect cheating, fraud, account abuse, and other emerging platform risks.

Responsibilities:

- Design and develop statistical and machine learning models to identify and mitigate risks

- Build scalable features, risk signals, and detection frameworks using gameplay telemetry, player behavior, account, transaction, and operational data

- Investigate complex abuse patterns and translate insights into models, rules, dashboards, and recommendations

- Establish best practices for model evaluation, monitoring, drift detection, and impact measurement

- Collaborate with product, security, anti-cheat, fraud, game, and operations teams to develop data-driven prevention and enforcement strategies

- Mentor junior data scientists and promote reusable data science practices

Requirements:

- 7+ years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, Applied Statistics, Fraud Detection, Security Analytics, Trust & Safety, or a related analytical field

- Strong proficiency in Python or R and advanced SQL

- Experience leading end-to-end machine learning projects from problem definition through production deployment

- Expertise building statistical or machine learning models using large-scale datasets

- Strong understanding of model evaluation, including precision/recall tradeoffs, threshold optimization, and model performance measurement

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits package, including health services, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more

- Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid and remote work options

- Opportunities for growth and professional development in a dynamic and collaborative environment

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Fraud Detection
- Security Analytics

### Nice to have
- gaming
- anti-cheat
- trust & safety
- fraud prevention
- cybersecurity
- account abuse
- bot detection
- graph analytics
- clustering
- sequence modeling

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