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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Sr Data Scientist - **Company:** Electronic Arts Inc - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $165,000.0 - $256,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Cyber Security, Fraud Prevention and Detection, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Operational Data Store, Software Deployment, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Model Validation, Kubernetes, Data Analytics, Apache Kafka, Data Management, Databricks - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=1b97ef9ad96dfc39 ## About the Role * 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. ## Description * 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 productionize 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. ## Related Videos - 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