Sony
Senior Data Scientist
$180K–$205K
San Diego · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of professional experience in data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Lead data science work for PlayStation’s global payment, subscription, and risk experiences, using rigorous analysis to improve customer flows and guide business decisions.
What you'll do
- Lead analytical initiatives across payments, subscriptions, commerce, fraud, risk, and player experience.
- Set experimental, causal-inference, statistical-modeling, and machine-learning approaches; build scalable models and reusable measurement capabilities.
- Advise senior stakeholders on product and business decisions, and provide technical leadership through mentorship and methodology guidance.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of professional experience in data science, applied statistics, machine learning, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree in a quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills, with deep expertise in experimentation, causal inference, statistical modeling, machine learning, and model evaluation.
- Demonstrated success leading complex data science initiatives from problem framing through operationalization and impact measurement.
Nice to have
- Experience in payments, subscriptions, digital commerce, fintech, gaming, media, marketplaces, or scaled consumer technology.
- Experience operationalizing models and using large-scale platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, or BigQuery.
Pay
USD $180,000 to $205,000 annual base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, BigQuery
AI focus
Develop and evaluate machine-learning models for payments, subscriptions, commerce, fraud, risk, and player experience.
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