Data Scientist

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Data Scientist – Store Publishing Operations & Commerce (SPOC)

San Diego, CA (remote considered, west coast hours) 

Who We Are

At Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) PlayStation, we create unforgettable gaming experiences—and we're just as committed to building an elite team. As a leader in interactive entertainment, PlayStation operates at a massive scale, supporting millions of players worldwide and processing billions of transactions annually across our digital ecosystem.

Our Store Publishing Operations & Commerce (SPOC) team is responsible for ensuring trust, security, and seamless transactions across PlayStation’s digital store. We provide data-driven solutions to support platform services, customer experience, and risk management. By using advanced analytics and machine learning, we focus on detecting unauthorized access attempts and safeguarding user identities, while optimizing the balance between security and user experience.

About the Role

For over five years, SIE has been operating an innovative risk platform powered by machine learning to safeguard the expansive PlayStation® Network ecosystem. Our Data Science team plays a critical role in protecting account integrity, detecting unauthorized access, and enhancing authentication security across PlayStation’s digital ecosystem.

We’re looking for a Data Scientist to develop insights, design experiments, and enhance risk modeling strategies in collaboration with engineering, product, and risk teams. If you’re passionate about large-scale machine learning, real-time security risk mitigation, and safeguarding user accounts, we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

• Develop machine learning models to detect and prevent account takeover, credential stuffing, and other forms of fraud.
• Analyze patterns of fraudulent behavior and extract actionable insights to enhance account security strategies.
• Design and implement A/B tests to evaluate the effectiveness of security interventions and friction-based authentication measures.
• Enhance real-time detection systems to identify anomalous login behaviors and unauthorized access attempts.
• Collaborate with product, risk, and engineering teams to integrate security models into PlayStation’s ecosystem.
• Monitor and evaluate security metrics, ensuring continuous improvement of fraud detection performance.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging security threats and incorporate cutting-edge techniques into fraud prevention models.

Requirements:

• Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, etc.).
• 3+ years of experience in data science, security analytics, or fraud detection.
• Strong proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy, Scikit-learn) and SQL.
• Experience with anomaly detection, supervised/unsupervised learning, and behavioral analytics.
• Familiarity with A/B testing and causal inference to assess security features' impact.
• Excellent communication skills to translate data insights into actionable security improvements.

Bonus:

• Experience with graph-based fraud detection, adversarial ML, or identity verification models.
• PlayStation fan

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond. 

PlayStation is a Fair Chance employer and qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for employment.