Principal AI Agent Engineer – Forward-Deployed

Unity; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 228,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health insurance

Employee stock ownership

Generous vacation and personal days

Retirement/pension plans

Parental leave support

Job summary

Unity is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with departments across the company, transforming how they work with AI, agents, and automated workflows. You will write production code, design and deploy agents, and build integrations to reduce manual effort and accelerate decisions.

You will sit inside Engineering but partner with Finance, Legal, Marketing, People, Operations, and other teams, learning workflows and delivering solutions that run faster and more reliably.

Qualifications

• Significant production software engineering experience — services, integrations, data pipelines, and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Embed with a partner department and learn workflows, decision points, and unwritten rules.

Skills

Production software engineering

LLMs & agentic systems

Agentic coding tools

Stakeholder collaboration

Ambiguity tolerance

Long-term system design

Clear communication

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Job description

Unity is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with departments across the company, transforming how they work with AI, agents, and automated workflows. You will write production code, design and deploy agents, and build integrations to reduce manual effort and accelerate decisions.

You will sit inside Engineering but partner with Finance, Legal, Marketing, People, Operations, and other teams, learning workflows and delivering solutions that run faster and more reliably.