# Senior 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 **Apply**: https://jobs.ea.com/es_ES/careers/JobDetail/Sr-Data-Scientist/215733?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_6a5db316-9c2 ## Description Electronic Arts creates incredible entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans worldwide. Here, everyone is part of the story, being part of a community that connects people globally. Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress at EA. We're a world-class community of technologists, innovators, strategists, and orchestrators transforming interactive entertainment. Together, we power the platforms, AI-driven tools, live services, and infrastructure that ensure global scale, secure player experiences, and unlock bold new possibilities. EA Security protects our players, employees, products, and platforms. We set security standards, support game and enterprise teams, assess risk across partners and systems, and ensure compliance with global requirements. Our work strengthens system integrity, supports fair play, and enables teams to build and operate securely at scale. As a Senior Data Scientist, you will lead end-to-end data science initiatives, from problem definition and exploratory analysis through model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. Responsibilities: - Lead data science initiatives from start to finish, including defining problems, analysing data, developing models, evaluating results, deploying models, and monitoring their performance. - Design and develop statistical and machine learning models to identify cheating, fraud, account abuse, botting, suspicious gameplay, and other emerging platform risks. - Create scalable features, risk signals, and detection frameworks using gameplay telemetry, player behaviour, account, transaction, and operational data. - Investigate complex abuse patterns, translate insights into models, rules, dashboards, and recommendations, and continuously improve detection quality by optimising model performance and reducing false positives. - Establish best practices for model evaluation, monitoring, drift detection, and impact measurement while partnering with engineering teams to productionise data science solutions. - Collaborate with product, security, anti-cheat, fraud, game, and operations teams to develop data-driven prevention and enforcement strategies. - Mentor junior data scientists, promote reusable data science practices, and communicate analytical findings, model trade-offs, and business impact to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Required Qualifications: - 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 ambiguous problem definition through production deployment. - Expertise building statistical or machine learning models using large-scale behavioural, transactional, telemetry, account, or security datasets. - Strong understanding of model evaluation, including precision/recall trade-offs, threshold optimisation, calibration, false positives, monitoring, and model performance measurement. - Experience engineering features from complex, multi-source datasets and translating business or security problems into scalable analytical solutions. - Proven ability to partner cross-functionally with engineering, product, security, fraud, or operations teams to deliver production-ready models, dashboards, and decision-support tools. - Experience mentoring technical teammates and effectively communicating complex analytical insights to diverse audiences. Preferred Qualifications: - Experience in gaming, anti-cheat, trust & safety, fraud prevention, cybersecurity, account abuse, bot detection, or other adversarial environments. - Experience developing detection frameworks, risk scoring models, anomaly detection, graph analytics, clustering, sequence modelling, or human-in-the-loop review systems. - Familiarity with gameplay telemetry, player behaviour analytics, account lifecycle data, commerce systems, or live-service game operations. - Experience operationalising ML solutions with cloud and data platforms such as AWS, GCP, Spark, Databricks, Snowflake, Kafka, Airflow, or Kubernetes. - Experience balancing detection effectiveness with player experience, operational efficiency, and business impact in rapidly evolving threat environments. Benefits: Electronic Arts offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical insurance, mental wellbeing support, pension plans, paid time off, family leave, free games, and more. The company fosters an environment where teams can perform at their best. ## 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 - AWS - GCP - Spark - Databricks - Snowflake - Kafka - Airflow - Kubernetes --- Source: [Apply at jobs.ea.com](https://jobs.ea.com/es_ES/careers/JobDetail/Sr-Data-Scientist/215733?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)