Epic Games
Data Science Intern
Cary,North Carolina,United States +1 · Internship · Posted Sep 21, 2026
- Location
- Cary,North Carolina,United States
Cary, North Carolina, United States - Visa sponsorship
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the posting location for the duration of the internship.
About the job
Develop and evaluate data science models to detect fraud and abuse, and measure how they help protect Epic users.
What you'll do
- Explore large datasets to characterize abuse patterns and build and evaluate detection models.
- Work with operations analysts to develop model features and assess outcomes, including confirmed cases and false positives.
- Create monitoring or dashboards, document findings, and present results to the team.
What they ask for
- Ability to write SQL to retrieve and shape data from large datasets.
- Grounding in statistics and machine learning fundamentals, including classification and evaluation metrics beyond accuracy.
- Curiosity about adversarial problems and the ability to communicate technical findings within a team.
- Comfort with rapidly evolving problems and messy or sparsely labeled data.
Nice to have
- Python for data analysis, pandas, and scikit-learn.
- 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.
Tools
Python, pandas, scikit-learn, SQL
AI focus
Build and evaluate statistical or machine learning models to detect abusive activity at scale.
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