Senior Data Scientist

Sony Interactive Entertainment
Los Angeles
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 167,200 - 250,800 annuallyFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningEducation: mastersSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Communication","Problem-solving","Mentorship","Strategic influence"]

Drive development of advanced modeling and analytical approaches that quantify player value, incremental impact, and long-term platform value. Apply causal inference, forecasting, optimization, and machine learning to measure effects of launches and investments, and build scenario models for long-range decisions. Own ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end and partner with Finance, Strategy, and Platform to ensure models are robust, trusted, and adopted, mentoring other data scientists along the way.

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Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment
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Senior Data Scientist

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Job Summary

Drive development of advanced modeling and analytical approaches that quantify player value, incremental impact, and long-term platform value. Apply causal inference, forecasting, optimization, and machine learning to measure effects of launches and investments, and build scenario models for long-range decisions. Own ambiguous problem spaces end-to-end and partner with Finance, Strategy, and Platform to ensure models are robust, trusted, and adopted, mentoring other data scientists along the way.
Location: Los Angeles
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and deliver advanced modeling approaches to quantify player value, incremental impact, and long-term platform value using causal inference, forecasting, optimization, and ML.
  • •Measure incremental effects of launches, investments, and external market events, isolating true impact and translating it into actionable value creation insights.
  • •Build optimization and scenario models to inform long-range planning and investment decisions under real-world constraints.
  • •Own ambiguous problem spaces and break down complex business challenges into tractable, measurable solutions.
  • •Partner across Finance, Strategy, and Platform to ensure value-driving products are robust, trusted, and adopted; communicate outcomes to technical and non-technical audiences and mentor other data scientists.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 167,200 - 250,800 annually
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kPaid LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Deliver decision-grade analytical and modeling solutions for customer value, incrementality, forecasting, or investment decisioning.
  • •Apply optimization or operations research approaches (e.g., resource allocation, scheduling, constrained planning) or have a quantitative foundation to learn them quickly.
  • •Demonstrate strong grounding in causal inference and impact measurement, with judgment to assess assumptions and select proportionate methods.
  • •Own projects end-to-end, from problem definition and method selection through delivery and business adoption.
  • •Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience using modern analytics/ML tooling such as PySpark or equivalent distributed processing.
Experience:GamingE-commerceSubscription-based businessesExperimentation frameworksCausal inference
Education:Master's in operations research, machine learning, statistics, economics, or related field
Skills:Stakeholder managementCommunicationProblem-solvingMentorshipStrategic influence
Languages:English
Tech Stack:PythonSQLPySparkMachine learningCausal inferenceForecastingOptimizationTransformersEmbeddingsSequence-based models

Company Brief

Sony Interactive Entertainment
Develops and publishes PlayStation hardware, software, and digital services, operating the PlayStation platform and ecosystem for gaming, entertainment, and network services worldwide.
Industry: Gaming
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: San Mateo, United States
Founded: 1993
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