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Electronic Arts
Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted 1 month ago
Last seen 1 month ago
Active
full-time
Data & Insights
$138,700 - $199,900 CAD

Job Summary

Join Electronic Arts as a Lead Data Scientist to drive innovation in search and personalization for top games, leveraging your expertise in statistical modeling, AI/ML, and data engineering. Lead a talented team, mentor junior scientists, and make a significant impact on player experiences through data-driven insights and cutting-edge technology.

About this job

Electronic Arts is seeking a thoughtful and disciplined Lead Data Scientist with deep statistical modeling and strong data engineering experience. This role involves building and improving search and personalization capabilities for EA's top games, elevating actionable insights, and accelerating learning through data-driven testing. You will bring expertise in AI, ML, and engineering to create best practices for search and personalization, helping to surface interesting user-generated content to each player.

Requirements

- Work directly with the search team to understand their offerings/domain and create data science products and solutions to solve for their use cases. - Partner with our team lead for Recommendations and Personalization to help surface uniquely personalized content to each player. - Collaborate closely with Machine Learning Engineers and Machine Learning Operations to deploy and monitor models. - Coach and mentor other Data Scientists and Senior Data Scientists on the team, ensuring technical best practices and guiding stakeholder communication. - 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 AWS/GCP, Python, and Hive. - Use data manipulation, processing, and data visualizations to aid in your modeling efforts. - Assist the search team and data teams in making important decisions. - 6+ years of professional experience manipulating data sets, building statistical models and productizing models along with experience applying Data Science methodologies to real-world problems. - Strong expertise in building, deploying, and testing search algorithms. - Experience with deep learning. - 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, Hive, PyTorch/TensorFlow, and AWS/GCP. - Experience guiding and mentoring more junior Data Scientists.

Benefits & Perks

- Vacation (3 weeks per year to start) - 10 days per year of sick time - Paid top-up to EI/QPIP benefits up to 100% of base salary when you welcome a new child (12 weeks for maternity, and 4 weeks for parental/adoption leave) - Extended health/dental/vision coverage - Life insurance - Disability insurance - Retirement plan to regular full-time employees - Certain roles may also be eligible for bonus and equity - Holistic approach to benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness - Healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games

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