Data Scientist

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Cary, NC, USA
In-Office
3-5 Annually
Mid level
Gaming • Metaverse
The Role
Design, build, and maintain scalable ML systems, focusing on production infrastructure and empowering data scientists through AI tooling and collaboration.
Summary Generated by Built In
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.

ANALYTICSWhat 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

You’ll join the Advanced Analytics & ML Services team to design, build, and operate scalable ML systems end-to-end from R&D workflows through production serving and monitoring. This role is hands-on engineering with real ownership where you’ll ship foundational infrastructure, enable data scientists, and push new capabilities like agentic tooling that accelerates how we build and maintain analytics/ML systems. You’ll work across domains like recommendations and ranking, bandit-based optimization, graph analytics, and player behavior modeling at blazingly fast big-data scale.

In this role, you will
  • Build production ML systems: Design, implement, and maintain scalable solutions for batch and real-time ML workloads, ensuring models and their outputs are served reliably
  • Own ML lifecycle infrastructure: Experiment tracking, model registry, job orchestration, alerting
  • Ship AI Agentic Tooling: Develop and implement reusable AI tooling, skills, and plugins to streamline ML and analytics workflows to empower Data Scientists and other engineering teams
  • Partner closely with Analytics, Engineering, and Product: Prioritize solutions and ensure incremental delivery that drives the most impact
What we're looking for
  • Minimum 3+ years of Machine Learning Engineering experience in a data-driven environment, designing and implementing production analytic/data systems, ideally in a AAA video gaming or streaming entertainment context
  • Skilled at working with AI tooling (ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code, etc) to assist in the development process
  • Strong technical background with a primary focus on engineering and MLOps practices over pure Data Science research
  • Fluent with modern Data/ML stack: Orchestration (Airflow), Big Data Pipelines (Databricks), Model Registry and Experiment Tracking (MLFlow)
  • Strong development practices using python and Docker for portable and extensible tooling
  • Experience building infrastructure for recommendation engines and real time optimization algorithms
  • Thrives in Ambiguity and action oriented. Can take fuzzy goals and build out prototypes and iterate quickly to output workable deliverables incrementally
  • Passion for video games and/or video game technology
EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 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 here.

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.

Top Skills

Airflow
Chatgpt
Claude Code
Databricks
Docker
Machine Learning
Mlflow
Mlops
Python
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The Company
HQ: Cary, NC
5,500 Employees
Year Founded: 1991

What We Do

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is an American company founded by CEO Tim Sweeney. The company is headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, and has more than 50 offices worldwide. Today Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, and Epic has over 600 million accounts with over 5 billion friend connections across Fortnite, Fall Guys, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content.

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