Senior Data Scientist, Electronic Arts

CA$115.1-161.2k

Salary applicable for BC only

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Kafka

Tensorflow

Hadoop

PyTorch

Hive

Sagemaker

Mid and Senior level

Toronto

Vancouver

Remote from Canada

Video game company

Job no longer available

Video game company

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmenteSportsMobileVirtual Reality

Job no longer available

CA$115.1-161.2k

Salary applicable for BC only

SQL

AWS

Kubernetes

GCP

Python

Kafka

Tensorflow

Hadoop

PyTorch

Hive

Sagemaker

Mid and Senior level

Toronto

Vancouver

Remote from Canada

1001+ employees

B2CGamingEntertainmenteSportsMobileVirtual Reality

Company mission

To inspire the world to play, by creating games and experiences for the global player community that are a reflection of our diverse world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You're passionate about elevating insights to be actionable across projects, and accelerating learning through data-driven testing
4+ years of professional experience manipulating data sets, building statistical models, and productizing models along with experience applying Data Science methodologies to real-world problems
Ph.D./Master's in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or another quantitative field encouraged
Experience working on a mix of recommendation, personalization, matchmaking, and forecast modeling
Experienced in analyzing extremely complex, multi-dimensional data sets with a variety of tools
Superior verbal, visual, and written communication skills to educate and work with cross-functional teams
Experience using Python, SQL, PyTorch/TensorFlow, Hive/Hadoop, and AWS/GCP
Role benefits from experience in gaming

What the job involves

You will report to a senior data science manager within EA's central Data and Analytics (DnA) organization
You will work with top data science talent to build live services features like recommendations, matchmaking, and personalization across all EA titles that will lead to a unique opportunity to affect the games played by millions of players
Work directly with the game teams/partners (internal clients) to understand their offerings/domain and create data science products and solutions to solve for their live service use cases
Assist our team leads across Live Services: Recommendations/Matchmaking/Personalization with generalizing products across titles
Work on team projects within your pillar (live service), proposing methodology and guiding the direction of each project
Ensure sound methodology and experimental design, and guide the direction of each project from start to finish
Effectively communicate data science projects and products to stakeholders, including those with non-data science backgrounds
Design, improve and work with our data pipeline that transfers and processes petabytes of data using S3, Kubernetes, Sagemaker, GCP, Python, Apache Kafka, & Hive
Use data manipulation, processing, and data visualizations to aid in your modeling efforts
Assist game teams and data teams in making important decisions
Mentor and coach junior team members

Our take

EA is a leading global game company, responsible for developing and publishing some of the biggest games of the last 20 years. Its publishing successes include giants like The Sims, Battlefield, and Mass Effect, while EA's titles, such as Fifa, Madden, and NBA Live, have also seen market-leading success.

A series of acquisitions in 2021 marked EA's push into mobile gaming, which has become the driving force behind the rapid growth of the global video gaming market, and has remained a clear focus for the company, despite the cancellation of its popular Apex Legends Mobile game. The company also expressed interest in NFTs and "play-to-earn" games, going so far as to label them "the future of the industry", but has since taken steps to distance itself from the idea, as it proved unpopular with gamers.

This combined model of publishing and development has allowed EA to put its name to a huge range of products, making the brand iconic in the gaming world. It has formed major partnerships with the likes of Disney, giving it full control of creating in-demand games, such as within the Star Wars franchise. In the upcoming years, the company plans to focus on games-as-a-service, as it embraces the evolution of the gaming world.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

6% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (3.62)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Dec 1982

$2m

SERIES A

May 1982

$0.2m

SEED

Total funding: $2.2m

Company HQ

Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA

Leadership

Andrew Wilson

(CEO, not founder)

Joined EA as Vice President and Executive Producer in 2000, and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO.

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