Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Modeling

Unity; New York (NY); On-site; USD 149,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity awards

Retirement plans

Generous vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Unity seeks a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for the Vector Ads Modeling team to advance ads recommendation algorithms and deliver personalized experiences.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering and product teams to productionalize research, and to leverage real-time and large-scale data for rapid model validation.

Ideal candidates bring expertise in state-of-the-art ML/DL, Python, and PyTorch, with a focus on user behavior modeling and scalable infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Expertise in applying state-of-the-art ML and DL to real-world problems, especially user behavior modeling.
• Strong Python proficiency and experience with PyTorch or similar frameworks.
• Solid understanding of metrics design, large-scale data analysis, and distributed computing concepts.

Responsibilities

• Understand ads business including product offering and advertisers goals.
• Drive foundational research for new models and paradigms.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to productionalize research.
• Leverage large-scale data to validate models and iterate rapidly.

Skills

State-of-the-art ML

Deep learning

Python

PyTorch

User behavior modeling

Distributed computing

Tools

PyTorch

Job description

The Opportunity

Unity Vector represents the next generation of our AI-powered advertising ecosystem, a forward-looking evolution of our machine learning infrastructure and models.

We are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join our Vector Ads Modeling team. In this role, you will work with a high-performing high-impact team to advance ads recommendation algorithms to deliver personalized ads experience.

What You'll Be Doing

• Understand ads business, including product offering, advertisers goals, ads serving funnel, and rich real-time and dynamic user interaction data.
• Drive foundational research for new models and paradigms.
• Leverage rich user data and large-scale compute to validate models rapidly.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to productionalize research.

What We're Looking For

• Expertise: Hands-on experience applying state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning models to complex real-world problems, specifically in the domains of user behavior modeling. Proficiency in Python, Pytorch and deep learning frameworks.
• Data & Analytics: Solid understanding of metric design, large-scale data analysis, and distributed computing frameworks.
• Strategic Impact: Proven ability to drive projects end-to-end, solving critical cross-team problems and delivering measurable business results.

Additional Information

Gross Annual Salary: $148,700 - $244,600 USD

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate’s relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
• Commute subsidy
• Employee stock ownership
• Competitive retirement/pension plans
• Generous vacation and personal days
• Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs
• Office food snacks
• Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
• Employee Resource Groups
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Training and development programs
• Volunteering and donation matching program

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world's leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D - closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.