Data Scientist

Multiple Locations: Redwood City, CA, USA • Vancouver, BC, Canada • Orlando, FL, USA • Austin, TX, USA

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Requisition Number: 168129

Position Title: Data Scientist I

External Description:

At Maxis, creator of The Sims™, we thrive on outrageous thinking. It’s the fuel that inspires the best life simulation games in the world. We’re innovators and great storytellers. But it’s not just about amazing your peers—it’s about amazing yourself and our fans. Take risks, collaborate with brilliant minds and dare to dream big. Together, we can impact millions of players every day.

As a Data Scientist on The Sims franchise, you’ll be handed the keys to massive volumes of player behavioral data and responsible for maintaining, iterating on, and developing data products that meaningfully inform game design, feature prioritization, and product development.

You’ll be working with a large but tight-knit studio of enthusiastic industry craftspeople from all walks of life. You’ll also join a group of experienced data scientists, analysts, and data engineers as a member of the embedded-and-dedicated Studios Data and Insights (SDI) team.

The Sims 4 has an extremely unique player base, attracting a large, young, female-skewing audience. If you’re excited about creating the best possible experience for these players, come join us!

Responsibilities:

Research and implement AI/ML approaches to drive greater personalization of the player experience, and to facilitate game makers’ decision making;
Analyze and develop explanatory, predictive, and prescriptive models using appropriate mathematical methods like Bayesian statistics, time-series analysis, supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods, semantic analysis, and natural language processing;
Partner in the data engineering process, including data source and feature identification and integration, feature engineering, and data pipelining. Use code driven methods to translate your work from research into production, scaling to millions of players;
Derive actionable insights from data and communicate them throughout the organization in a clear, concise way;
Learn, implement and share new methodologies with our broader team.

Qualifications:

3+ years’ hands on experience in a data science role working on digital products. Time spent building, validating and deploying predictive models and algorithms. Preference for experience with some of the following techniques:

Matrix factorization, collaborative filtering, k-means clustering, hierarchical clustering, bag of words models, TFIDF, random forest, linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks

Master’s degree in a quantitative field
Expert-level SQL
Demonstrated experience with Python and/or R
Accustomed to using data to test ideas rigorously and objectively
Fast learner; views challenges as opportunities; tenacious and focused
Understands the importance of good documentation and transferability of knowledge
Evangelist for data democratization and empowerment of non-technical partners
Able to create compelling communications and translate complex technical topics to non-technical partners
Experience with any of the following is a big plus:

Application deployment using AWS, Virtual Machines, Airflow, Docker
Demonstrated experience collaborating with engineering partners
Familiarity with Snowflake
Familiarity with Looker

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We are a global team of creators, storytellers, technologists, experience originators, innovators and so much more. We believe amazing games and experiences start with teams as diverse as the players and communities we serve. At Electronic Arts, the only limit is your imagination.

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About Electronic Arts

Everything we do is designed to inspire the world to play. Through our cutting-edge games, innovative services, and powerful technologies, we bring worlds with infinite possibilities to millions of players and fans around the globe.

We’re looking for collaborative and inclusive people with diverse perspectives who will enrich our culture and challenge us. We take a holistic approach with our benefits program, focusing on physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support our people through every chapter of life. We provide comprehensive benefit packages and support for a balanced life with paid time off and new parent leave, plus free games and so much more. Our goal is to provide a safe and respectful workplace that empowers you to thrive in both work and life.

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. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.

Days Open: 170

Can this position be remote?: 1

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