Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world’s largest interactive entertainment company, known for its beloved franchises like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. They are seeking a Data Scientist to develop tools and models that empower Data Scientists and business analysts across various departments, focusing on building AI, ML, and data science products while enhancing internal processes and player satisfaction.
Contributing reusable code to internal software libraries, following software engineering best practices.
Researching and implementing novel Data Science and Machine Learning approaches, incorporating these solutions into our codebase and products.
Translating requirements from cross-disciplinary teams in Game Operations, Marketing, Game Studios, and Business Planning into data solutions.
Synthesizing disparate data, detecting and working around broken data, and investigating every possibility until you have a thorough solution.
Enhancing our A/B testing framework with new methodologies for broader data scientist utilization.
Developing and supporting a Propensity ML model factory, incorporating novel time series models leveraging player data.
Creating new predictive models, such as for forecasting financial sales.
Contributing to a Generative AI-powered anomaly detection product for the analytics team.
Being a tenacious and self-directed problem solver.
Being team-oriented, and able to build long-lasting and collaborative relationships effectively.
Respectfully contributing your professional experience in every conversation.
Listening with openness to others.
Adapting quickly, having a high tolerance for ambiguity, and coordinating effectively on a team.
Qualification
Required
BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Operations Research, or another quantitative field.
2+ years professional experience as a Data Scientist.
Interest in implementing prototype-to-production engineering skills in Python, including best practices such as unit testing, source control, proper documentation, library packaging, versioning, testing, containerization, CI/CD, and task scheduling.
General machine learning expertise, i.e. regression, classification, clustering algorithms.
Professional MLOPs habits around model validation, testing, and tracking.
Interest in inferential statistics, e.g. statistical power analysis, significance testing, t-tests.
Engineering experience in at least one cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Preferred
Experience with LLMs and RAG based workflows.
Prior experience building software products.
Experience with time series ML modeling and Generative AI.
Video game enthusiasm with a solid understanding of the gameplay mechanics of first-person shooters.
Benefit
Medical, dental, vision, health savings account or health reimbursement account, healthcare spending accounts, dependent care spending accounts, life and AD&D insurance, disability insurance
401(k) with Company match, tuition reimbursement, charitable donation matching
Paid holidays and vacation, paid sick time, floating holidays, compassion and bereavement leaves, parental leave
Mental health & wellbeing programs, fitness programs, free and discounted games, and a variety of other voluntary benefit programs like supplemental life & disability, legal service, ID protection, rental insurance, and others
If the Company requires that you move geographic locations for the job, then you may also be eligible for relocation assistance
Activision Blizzard creates interactive gaming and entertainment experiences.
