About the role#
We are looking for a Data Science Intern to join the Ecosystem Security team. You will support initiatives related to fraud and abuse detection. You will own a specific detection problem throughout the development cycle, working alongside a mentor and operations analysts to protect our users.
What you'll do#
- Explore large transaction, account, gameplay, and behavioral datasets to understand how abuse occurs.
- Build and evaluate statistical or machine learning models to detect abusive activity at scale.
- Partner with operations analysts to turn investigation heuristics into model features.
- Measure model performance against real outcomes like confirmed cases and false positive rates.
- Build dashboards or monitoring tools to track signals.
- Document your data sources, methodology, and findings.
- Present your results to the team.
What you'll need#
- Experience using Python for data analysis.
- Ability to write SQL to pull and shape data from large datasets.
- A grounding in statistics and machine learning fundamentals.
- Understanding of classification and evaluation metrics beyond accuracy.
- Interest in developing strong data science and software development skills.
- Curiosity about adversarial problems and why people find ways to game a system.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to respond effectively to constructive feedback.
- A flexible approach to problems and comfort working with messy or sparsely labeled data.
- Preference for exposure to anomaly detection, graph or network analysis, text classification and NLP, or sequence and time-series modeling.
- Interest in games, live services, or online trust and safety is a plus.
Location & details#
- This role is based on-site in Cary, North Carolina.
- The position is full-time and paid.
- This is a rolling internship with a flexible start date in 2027.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for the duration of the internship.
- We are accepting applications from students in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics.
About Epic Games
Epic Games operates as an interactive entertainment company and 3D engine technology provider. It manages the game Fortnite and develops Unreal Engine for use in film, architecture, automotive, and simulation sectors. The company maintains an ecosystem for developers through the Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services. Headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, the organization employs over 11,000 people across more than 40 global offices.
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