Senior Data Scientist, Transparency & Regulatory
About The Position
Epic Games is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join its Analytics team and own the data and tooling behind transparency reports published under regulations such as the DSA. The role also supports 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, obtain figures from other teams, and validate figures before publication. The Senior Data Scientist will manage reporting data from requests through published figures, map internal moderation data to regulatory categories, and partner with product and engineering teams to ensure new features capture data that may be needed for regulatory reporting. The role also partners with Data Engineering on data-submission templates and validation tooling, reviews reporting pipeline data-quality checks monthly, resolves data drift and defects, and develops reporting methodology with company leadership.
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, documented metric definitions that can be audited by others.
- Hands-on experience with transparency reports or similar regulatory reporting, such as DSA, COPPA, or audits, including delivering recurring, deadline-bound reports that depend 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 with data visualization, code version control such as GitHub, and orchestration such as Airflow.
- 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 a regulator's request for information.
Responsibilities
- Own data for transparency reports, risk assessments, and other compliance reporting across products including Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and Fab, from data requests through published figures.
- Work with Legal, Compliance, Engineering, and Trust and Safety policy teams to turn regulatory text into productionized metric definitions.
- Map internal moderation data to regulatory categories and work with product and engineering teams to ensure new features capture data needed for potential regulatory reports before launch.
- Partner with Data Engineering to develop templates and validation tooling for other teams submitting data.
- Review reporting-pipeline data-quality checks monthly and work with Data Engineering to resolve drift and defects and add new moderation flows.
- Drive reporting methodology in partnership with leadership across the company.
Benefits
- Most employees are eligible to participate in Epic's benefit plans and discretionary incentive programs, subject to the terms of those plans or programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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