Sr Data Scientist

Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

Central Technology is the force multiplier, accelerating creative opportunity and progress ’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.

• Lead end-to-end data science initiatives, from problem definition and exploratory analysis through model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Design and develop statistical and machine learning models to detect cheating, fraud, account abuse, botting, suspicious gameplay, and other emerging platform risks.
• Build scalable features, risk signals, and detection frameworks using gameplay telemetry, player behavior, account, transaction, and operational data.
• Investigate complex abuse patterns, translate insights into models, rules, dashboards, and recommendations, and continuously improve detection quality by optimizing model performance and reducing false positives.
• Establish best practices for model evaluation, monitoring, drift detection, and impact measurement while partnering with engineering teams to product ionize 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 tradeoffs, and business impact to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• 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 behavioral, transactional, telemetry, account, or security datasets.
• Strong understanding of model evaluation, including precision/recall tradeoffs, threshold optimization, 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.

• 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 modeling, or human-in-the-loop review systems.
• Familiarity with gameplay telemetry, player behavior analytics, account lifecycle data, commerce systems, or live-service game operations.
• Experience operationalizing 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.

The ranges listed below are what EA in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in these locations at the time of this posting. If you reside in a different location, a recruiter will advise on the applicable range and benefits. Pay offered will be determined based on a number of relevant business and candidate factors (e.g. education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, or business needs).

• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria) *$141,400 - $204,400 CAD
• California (depending on location e.g. Los Angeles vs. San Francisco) *$165,000 - $256,000 USD

Pay is just one part of the overall compensation at EA.

In the US, we offer a package of benefits…