Data Science Intern

Epic Games · Data Science

Where: Cary,North Carolina,United States
Posted: Sep 21

We are looking for a Data Science Intern to join the Ecosystem Security team supporting initiatives related to fraud and abuse detection. As part of the EcoSec team, you will be given a detection problem to own as part of our development cycle. You will work with your data science mentor and the operations analysts who investigate these cases to explore the data, build a model, and measure its impact on how we protect players.

What you'd do

Explore large transaction, account, gameplay, and behavioral datasets to characterize how a specific form of abuse actually works
Build and evaluate statistical or machine learning models that detect abusive activity at scale
Partner with operations analysts to translate their investigation heuristics into model features, and measure your results against real outcomes like confirmed cases and false positive rates
Build dashboards or monitoring so the team can track your signal without an analyst in the loop
Document your data sources, methodology, and findings so the work can be extended after your internship, and present your results to the team

What they want

Experience with Python for data analysis, pandas and scikit-learn preferred
Ability to write SQL against large datasets to pull and shape your own data
A grounding in statistics and machine learning fundamentals, including classification and evaluation metrics beyond accuracy
A desire to develop strong data science and software development skills
Genuine curiosity about adversarial problems, specifically how and why people find ways to game a system
Good interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate technical findings within a team
The ability to react and respond effectively to constructive feedback
A flexible approach to rapidly evolving problems, and comfort working with messy or sparsely labeled data
Nice to have: exposure to any of anomaly detection, graph or network analysis, text classification and NLP, or sequence and time-series modeling
Nice to have: interest in games, live services, or online trust and safety

About Epic Games · Data Science

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 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…