Principal Data Scientist

Requisition Number: 178825

Position Title: Advanced Data Scientist

External Description:

EA's Data & Analytics (DnA) team is accelerating our game developer's need for advanced data knowledge and toolsets.

We are hiring a Principal Data Scientist for our Data & Analytics (DnA) Data Science team to join our current roster of lead data scientists reporting to the head of Data Science. The Data Science team partners with all of EA’s game studios to offer data science products and solutions. For this Principal Data Scientist role we are looking for applied and practical AI/ML expertise with a focus on recommendation for our social platform, with opportunities to apply computer vision and NLP skills.

You will bring expertise in the area of AI, ML, and engineering, to create best practices for EA’s gaming titles and lead efforts related to personalization, content moderation and content evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with game teams/partners (internal clients) to understand their offerings/domain and create data science products and solutions to solve for their use cases.
• Focus on problem-driven approaches, applying pragmatic solutions to game team opportunities and decisions.
• Develop plans to generalize products across titles with our engineering partners.
• Review projects, providing guidance and being accountable for the success of the project or products produced.
• Communicate data science projects and products to partners.
• Ensure your methodology and experimental design and how experiments can produce relevant conclusions.
• Engage with other Data Science leads, sharing best practices and help consult on cross-projects.
• 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.
• Use your statistical and computational knowledge to build algorithms for calculating variances, state predictions, and find trends.

Required Qualifications

• Graduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or another quantitative field encouraged. (Masters/PhD)
• 10+ years of professional experience manipulating data sets, building statistical models and productizing models along with experience applying Data Science methodologies to real-world problems.
• Experience building applied models, systems or projects in the following areas: recommendation systems, retention, economics/systems experiments, ad segmentation, ML/AI engineering and deployment technology.
• Develops and presents clear plans, roadmaps, updates and future strategies to high ranking stakeholders or executives.
• Experienced in analyzing extremely complex, multi-dimensional data sets with a variety of tools.
• Familiarity with at least one scripting language: Python is used, but R/Scala possible.
• History of mentoring junior team members.
• Knowledgeable about data warehouse and non-relational data techniques to work with engineering partners.
• Experience using query languages and other analytic tools.
• Interest in games a big plus.

US COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these states. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES

• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. Sacramento):
º $178,100 - $271,700
• New York (depending on location e.g. Manhattan vs. Buffalo):
º $166,700 - $271,700
• Jersey City, NJ:
º $201,800 - $271,700
• Colorado (depending on location e.g. Denver vs. Colorado Springs):
º $166,700 - $227,900
• Washington (depending on location e.g. Seattle vs. Spokane):
º $166,700 - $258,200

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including paid time off (3 weeks per year to start), 80 hours per year of sick time, 16 paid company holidays per year, 10 weeks paid time off to bond with baby (following 1 year of service), medical/dental/vision insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and 401(k) to regular full-time employees. Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity.

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Company Profile:

Electronic Arts Inc.は、インタラクティブ・エンターテイメント・ソフトウェアの世界的大手企業です。 EAは、インターネットに接続されたコンソール、パソコン、携帯電話、タブレットに対してゲーム、コンテンツおよびオンラインサービスを提供しています。

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Days Open: 6

Can this position be remote?: 1

EEO Employer Verbiage:

EAは雇用機会を均等に提供します。 雇用に関する決定を下す際は、人種、肌の色、国籍、出身国、出身民族、身体的性別、社会/文化/心理的性別、性別自認または性別表現、性的指向、年齢、遺伝情報、宗教、身体障害、病状、妊娠、婚姻状況、家族状況、軍役経験の有無は考慮されません。 さらにEAでは、身体に障害のある方々のために、適用法令によって定められた職場環境を整えることも行っています。