Lead Data Scientist - Battlefield, Data and Insights (D&I)

About this role

### General Information

Locations: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Role ID

213127

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

CT - Data & Insights

Work Model

Hybrid

### Description & Requirements

Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

We are hiring a Lead Data Scientist – Battlefield to join our Data & Insights (D&I) Data Science team, reporting to a Senior Manager of Data Science. The Data Science team partners with EA studios to build scalable AI/ML solutions that enhance player experience, game design, and live service performance.

You will bring expertise in the area of AI, ML, and engineering. You will also lead efforts related to life cycle management, progression, in-game economies, and player experience, specifically, within the Battlefield franchise.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with Battlefield game team/partners (internal clients) to understand their offerings/domain and create data science products and solutions to solve for their use cases.
• Apply problem-driven, AI/ML approaches to improve player experience, engagement, retention, and monetization systems.
• Develop plans to generalize products across the franchise with our engineering partners.
• Establish rigorous experimental design standards (A/B testing, causal inference, system experimentation) to produce actionable insights.
• Collaborate with engineering partners to productionize models within live environments and gameplay systems.
• Design and enhance data pipelines that process petabyte-scale telemetry data using technologies such as AWS, S3, Kubernetes, GCP, Python, Apache Kafka, and Hive.
• Develop algorithms and statistical models for forecasting, player state predictio...