Data Science Intern

Cary, North Carolina, United States

About the Position

Join Epic Games as a Data Science Intern to support fraud and abuse detection initiatives in the Ecosystem Security team.

About the Role

At Epic Games, we pride ourselves on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Our Ecosystem Security (EcoSec) team is dedicated to providing a safer experience for our users by improving technology and crafting transparent policies.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• 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

Requirements

• 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
• Interest in games, live services, or online trust and safety

About the Company

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 of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Mentorship from experienced data science professionals
• Exposure to cutting-edge technology and projects
• Flexible start date in 2027

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 here.