WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ANALYTICS

What We Do

Our Data & Analytics teams build powerful stories and visuals that inform the games we make, the technology we develop, and business decisions that drive Epic.

What You’ll Do

Epic Games is looking for a Data Scientist to join the Gameplay Analytics team. You’ll apply mixed methods to own the end-to-end life cycle of creating data assets, reports, insights, and predictive models to impact the direction of efforts across Epic’s portfolio of products and ecosystems, with a particular focus on our First Party Games. The successful candidate will have the ability to apply a range of data technologies, statistical, machine learning methods, and visualization methods to influence development and product teams.

In this role, you will

  • Partner with design, game development, and product management counterparts to identify opportunities for our First Party Games and the business and use data to develop metrics and insights that shape the execution of the strategy
  • Work directly with programming and data platform teams to properly scope and capture the data required to unlock insights and models
  • Transform raw data into insights and production metrics, reports, and models
  • Continuously evaluate the effectiveness of metrics and to align them with long-term ecosystem growth
  • Work with design, product, and analytics teams to quickly and rigorously design, test, and learn from experiments to improve the product

What we’re looking for

  • At least 3 years of industry or relevant experience, with proven interest in and knowledge of live service video games
  • Strong product intuition and demonstrated background in influencing products by applying data and measurement to drive alignment
  • Experience with working with development teams to instrument data and ensure continued data quality
  • Experience with writing efficient and scalable SQL over billions of rows; it is a plus if you are familiar with distributed computing using Spark (Scala or PySpark)
  • Experience in data visualization (Tableau or similar)
  • Development experience in Python analytics ecosystem
  • Familiarity with supporting operational processes including: Code version control (Github or similar), Orchestration (Airflow)
  • Understanding of experimental design and A/B testing techniques
  • Advanced statistical training and a thorough understanding of the associated strengths and weaknesses of different statistical approaches is a plus
  • Experience in a “full-stack” environment – data file ingest, ETL, data storage interaction, application development, communication of results to storage systems, code version control is a plus

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

We pay 100% for benefits for both employees and dependents and offer coverage for supplemental medical, dental, vision, critical illness, telemedicine, Life and AD&D, long term disability insurance as well as weekly indemnity (short term disability) and a retirement savings plan with a competitive employer match. In addition to the EAP (employee assistance program), we also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 19 countries with 55 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we’ve been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic’s award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

Tagged as: AB Testing, Airflow, Analytics, Business, Creative, Data Quality, Data Visualization, Distributed Computing, Ecosystem, Experimental Design, Github, Machine Learning, Product Management, Production Metrics, Pyspark, Python, Sql, training, Version Control, Visualization, Writing

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