Data Science Intern

🏢 Epic Games · 📍 Cary,North Carolina,United States

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Position Summary & Responsibilities

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.

ECOSEC

What We Do

Our ECOSEC team provides a safer experience for Epic's users. We work across multiple products and services to improve technology and craft transparent policies so our players and users can have positive experiences on our platforms.

DATA SCIENCE INTERN

What You'll Do

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.

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

What we're looking for

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 fundam

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Technical mastery in high-performance C++ and absolute passion for Unreal Engine, gaming ecosystems, and player-first experiences.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):

1. Using slow, unoptimized high-level abstractions without understanding the underlying hardware cost.
2. Displaying indifference to gaming culture or viewing Unreal Engine strictly as a generic enterprise tool.
3. Lacking foundational computer science rigor in concurrency, rendering loops, or data structures.

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I build high-performance, low-latency systems that let creators and players interact with massive digital worlds seamlessly.

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