Data Science Intern

The job

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Job description

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

ECOSEC

What We Do

Our ECOSEC team provides a safer experience for Epic's users. We work across multiple products and services to improve technology and craft transparent policies so our players and users can have positive experiences on our platforms.

DATA SCIENCE INTERN

What You'll Do

We are looking for a Data Science Intern to join the Ecosystem Security team supporting initiatives related to fraud and abuse detection. As part of the EcoSec team, you will be given a detection problem to own as part of our development cycle. You will work with your data science mentor and the operations analysts who investigate these cases to explore the data, build a model, and measure its impact on how we protect players.

In this role, you will

• Explore large transaction, account, gameplay, and behavioral datasets to characterize how a specific form of abuse actually works
• Build and evaluate statistical or machine learning models that detect abusive activity at scale
• Partner with operations analysts to translate their investigation heuristics into model features, and measure your results against real outcomes like confirmed cases and false positive rates
• Build dashboards or monitoring so the team can track your signal without an analyst in the loop
• Document your data sources, methodology, and findings so the work can be extended after your internship, and present your results to the team

What we're looking for

• Experience with Python for data analysis, pandas and scikit-learn preferred
• Ability to write SQL against large datasets to pull and shape your own data
• A grounding in statistics and machine learning fundamentals, including classification and evaluation metrics beyond accuracy
• A desire to develop strong data science and software development skills
• Genuine curiosity about adversarial problems, specifically how and why people find ways to game a system
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate technical findings within a team
• The ability to react and respond effectively to constructive feedback
• A flexible approach to rapidly evolving problems, and comfort working with messy or sparsely labeled data
• Nice to have: exposure to any of anomaly detection, graph or network analysis, text classification and NLP, or sequence and time-series modeling
• Nice to have: interest in games, live services, or online trust and safety

This internship has a flexible start date in 2027. Recruitment will be ongoing until teams find an ideal match. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship. For more information about Epic’s Early Career Program, visit epicgames.com/earlycareers. This is going to be Epic!

ABOUT US

Epic Games​ ​is a leading interactive entertainment company. For over 30 years we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy here.

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

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The job is in Cary, NC. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Cary compares. Among the 100 largest places in North Carolina, Cary is #7 by population, #2 for remote work (#1 = most), #4 for college degrees (#1 = most), #9 for household income (#1 = highest). Its county, Wake County, is #4 of 100 counties for average pay ($76,807).

The place in numbers

Cary has 179,306 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 1.7% of the population of North Carolina. It covers 61 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 2,941 people per square mile. The median age is 40.2, about the same as the state median (40.2 against 39.1).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,738 a month (rent plus utilities), 42% above the state median ($1,738 against $1,228). Over a year that is 15.5% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $580,200, which is 4.3 times the median household income ($134,905). 66.6% of households own their home, about the same as the state average (66.6% against 66.6%).

Work and pay

The Raleigh-Cary, NC metropolitan area has 743,120 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $51,990 a year, about the same as the national median ($51,990 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (79,180 jobs, median $47,310); sales and related (74,800 jobs, median $42,450); food preparation and serving related (66,380 jobs, median $30,480). The area is most specialised in computer and mathematical (1.7 times) and life, physical, and social science (1.5 times), where the share of workers is well above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($132,650) and computer and mathematical ($107,760). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Wake County was 2.8%. 69.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Wake County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 56.3% drive alone, 0.3% use public transit, 1.0% walk, 36.5% work from home. 7.1% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 49% below the state average (7.1% against 13.9%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

70.5% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 98% above the state share (70.5% against 35.6%). 23.9% of residents were born outside the United States, 163% above the state share (23.9% against 9.1%). The poverty rate is 5.7%, 57% below the state rate (5.7% against 13.0%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 80°F (26.7°C), and the coolest is Jan at 38°F (3.4°C). About 1,187 mm (47 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; Aug is the wettest month (127 mm) and Jan the driest (72 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

Nearby cities to compare

Closest cities in this guide: Morrisville (4 miles, rent 7% higher); Apex (5 miles, rent 9% higher); Holly Springs (9 miles, rent 16% higher); Raleigh (11 miles, rent 10% lower). Rent differences are against Cary; use the Compare tab to put any two cities side by side.

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Median rent in Cary is $1,738 a month and median household income $134,905 (ACS 2020–2024).

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