Data Scientist - Anti-cheat

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Perform ad-hoc investigations into suspicious patterns and gameplay behavior
• ▹Work with game teams and customer support to verify and explain rule detections
• ▹Support the esport event teams with vetting of contestants
• ▹Provide reports and performance analyses of the anti-cheat operation
• ▹Support game teams with investigations into suspicious activities and performance analyses of detection rules
• ▹Explore data and player behavior to design new rules

Requirements

• ▹Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with database querying, preferably using tools such as BigQuery
• ▹Proficiency in Python
• ▹Experience working with Google Cloud Platform
• ▹Experience working with ETLs and data pipelines
• ▹Experience in predictive modeling and analysis over large datasets
• ▹Professional English communication skills

Nice to have

• ▹Experience and/or interest in games and anti-cheat

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salaries
• ▹Passionate colleagues to share knowledge with

About the company

Embark's Anti-cheat team upholds the integrity of its games, identifies unfair play and protects the player experience. Its toolbox includes client-side protections, third-party systems and machine-learning models; billions of telemetry events are collected each day from all games.