Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Requisition ID:

R025061

Job Description:

Your Mission

The Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer, Security Operations will develop, implement and maintain infrastructure for our machine learning models as part of our Anti-Cheat efforts.

This position is eligible for remote work. 

What you bring to the table

The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, this role provides great opportunity to challenge you and broaden your skills. However, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners. Therefore, this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities: 

• Develop tools to help facilitate smooth and efficient machine learning
  pipelines.
• Analyze security log data from numerous heterogeneous security devices
  using advanced statistical techniques such as data analysis, data mining,
  optimization tools, and machine learning techniques and statistics.
• Build tools to automatically report on system irregularities within the machine
  learning pipeline and investigate and resolve such issues.
• Apply technical competence and analytical capabilities to improve security
  efficiency and streamline/automate Security Operations processes.
• Research, educate and apply knowledge of existing and emerging
  cybersecurity ML OPS principles, theories, and techniques.
• Distill complex information into actionable recommendations.

Minimum Requirements:

Experience

• 5+ years of professional experience as a Machine Learning Engineer.
• 1+ year of experience in gaming security, pipeline infrastructure, anti-cheat investigations, or similar area.
• 2+ years of engineering experience in at least one cloud platform such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Prototype-to-production engineering skills in Python, including standard processes such as source control, accurate documentation, versioning, testing, containerization, CI/CD, and task scheduling.
• Advanced analytics (statistical power analysis, significance testing, t-tests, ANOVA) and proficient SQL skills.
• Machine learning experience, i.e. regression, classification, and clustering algorithms. Time-series analysis, Bayesian methods, and survival analysis.
• Experience with cybersecurity data sets and applying machine learning techniques to aid in security and/or threat hunting.
• Basic understanding of game security, game development, and anti-cheat software.

Knowledge & Skills

• Master’s degree or equivalent work experience in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.

Extra Points:

Experience

• Cloud infrastructure experience
• Deep learning experience.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum development environments.
• Experience with Jira or a similar technology.
• Databricks environment experience.

Key Attributes

• Video game enthusiasm with a solid understanding of the gameplay mechanics in Warzone.

Your Platform

Activision Central Tech works to support our development studios and their titles. Comprised of seven main teams, we have many specialties including big data, privacy and security, motion capture and animation pipeline technologies, graphics, build and infrastructure for studio development and data centers, optimization, systems programming, and online services including matchmaking and networking. Central Tech is distributed globally with offices across the U.S., and in Canada, England, and Ireland.

Most of our teams are comprised of both engineering and research talent, allowing us to always have an eye on the future. Our dedicated engineers help with title development and provide valuable knowledge sharing between studios while our researchers are action-oriented and keep a strong connection with the needs of the game studios.

Central Tech is part of Activision. To learn more about us and our research, please visit us at https://research.activision.com/.

Our World

At Activision, we strive to create the most iconic brands in gaming and entertainment. We’re driven by our mission to deliv