Senior Data Scientist, Transparency & Regulatory

Epic Games•Cary, NC

About The Position

Epic Games is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its Analytics team. The role owns the data and drives the tooling behind transparency reports published under regulations such as the DSA, while supporting risk assessments, audits, compliance assessments, and other compliance reporting across products including Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and Fab. The position works with Legal, Compliance, Trust and Safety, and Data Engineering to translate regulatory requirements into clear metric definitions, gather figures held by other teams, and verify reported numbers before publication. The Senior Data Scientist maps internal moderation data to regulatory categories, helps product and engineering teams ensure new features capture data needed for future reporting, and partners with Data Engineering on data-submission templates and validation tools. The role also reviews monthly data-quality checks, addresses drift and defects, incorporates new moderation flows, and works with company leadership on reporting methodology.

Requirements

At least 5 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist or in a related field, including at least 2 years working with Trust and Safety, integrity, risk, compliance, or regulatory reporting data.
Expertise with SQL, Python, and big data technologies such as Spark or Databricks.
Experience translating legal, policy, or regulatory language into precise metric definitions documented well enough to be audited by others.
Hands-on experience with transparency reports or similar regulatory reporting (such as DSA, COPPA, or audits), including delivery of recurring, deadline-bound reports dependent on data from other teams.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including writing data specifications for engineers and presenting to Legal, Compliance, and senior leadership.
Experience using AI in daily data work and building AI tools or agents for documentation, reconciliation, or review work.
Passion for the gaming industry.

Nice To Haves

Experience with content moderation or child safety data, such as notices, appeals, statements of reasons, or age assurance.
Experience supporting an internal audit, controls review, or regulator request for information.
Experience with data visualization, code version control (GitHub or similar), and orchestration (Airflow or similar).

Responsibilities

Own data for transparency reports, risk assessments, and other compliance reporting across Epic products, from data requests through published figures.
Work with Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and Trust and Safety policy teams to translate regulatory text into production-ready metric definitions.
Map internal moderation data to regulatory categories and work with product and engineering teams to ensure new features capture data needed for regulatory reports.
Partner with Data Engineering to develop templates and validation tooling for other teams submitting data.
Review reporting-pipeline data-quality checks monthly; work with Data Engineering to fix drift and defects and add new moderation flows.
Drive reporting methodology in partnership with leadership across the company.

Benefits

The company pays 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents for coverage described as medically necessary and quality-of-life improving.
Medical coverage.
Dental coverage.
Vision HRA.
Long-term disability insurance.
Life insurance.
401(k) with competitive match.
Free therapy and coaching for employees and dependents through Modern Health.
Employee events and company-wide paid breaks.
Unlimited PTO and sick time.
Paid sabbatical after 7 years of employment.