Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed.
About the role
You will design, build, and optimize the recommendation systems that power Fortnite's Discover experience, serving personalized recommendations to one of the largest player bases in gaming across a massive catalog of creator-built experiences. You'll work across the full recommendation stack: candidate generation, content ranking, impression allocation, and real-time reranking. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience building production recommendation or ranking systems, ideally in a UGC, marketplace, or content discovery context
- Experience with deep learning for information retrieval and multi-stage recommendation pipelines (candidate generation, scoring, reranking)
- Demonstrated ability to design and analyze A/B experiments, with awareness of biases inherent to recommendation systems
- Strong Python engineering skills with experience in PyTorch and large-scale data processing frameworks (Spark preferred)
- Comfort working in a cloud-based ML environment
- Experience with explore/exploit strategies, content cold-start, or counterfactual evaluation methods applied to recommendation
More about this role
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.
Our Data & Analytics teams build powerful stories and visuals that inform the games we make, the technology we develop, and business decisions that drive Epic.
You will design, build, and optimize the recommendation systems that power Fortnite's Discover experience, serving personalized recommendations to one of the largest player bases in gaming across a massive catalog of creator-built experiences.
You'll work across the full recommendation stack: candidate generation, content ranking, impression allocation, and real-time reranking.
Unlike recommendation systems that operate over a stable catalog, you're working with a massive, rapidly changing content library where new experiences are...
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