Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Remote, USA

Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Location : Remote, USA

Overview

At Unity, our Inclusion is driven by one overarching framework : Empathy, Respect, and Opportunity. In a collaborative, fast‑growing environment, we are solving hard problems, and enabling the success of our community. In the Unity Ads Applied Research team, we envision and build systems that help creators capture the value they build.

Come join Unity Ads Applied Research to help drive the overall Ads strategy for Unity's products and services. In this position you will be driving our applied research and analysis on how to improve the optimization and machine learning powering our ad networks, marketplace and audience tools.

Responsibilities

Drive and implement machine learning applications and solutions across the organization.

Stay at the forefront of machine learning research to improve the organization’s capabilities.

Optimize and refine machine learning practices to establish the organization as a machine learning leader.

Formulate and validate modeling and dataset hypotheses by analyzing drivers and building development roadmap.

Define requirements and communicate needs to product and engineering teams. Drive the overall direction of machine learning advancements to support the organization’s strategic vision.

Qualifications

Master’s Degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field and three (3) years of related work experience as a Data Scientist or a related occupation.

Three (3) years of experience with interpreting and translating research into practical applications; developing research‑driven gaming advertisement recommendation and user profiling systems that enhance system performance and user engagement, leading to measurable business impact.

Experience using TensorFlow and PyTorch as well as understanding of model architectures and mechanisms to improve user engagement and further improve the performance of the company’s advertisement network.

Experience analyzing model performance using deep dive methodology and statistically bias understanding to identify key improvement areas, refining algorithms to enhance accuracy and efficiency.

Experience evaluating data trends and statistical patterns using Looker and Imply to pinpoint challenges; and driving informed decision‐making in machine learning applications.

International relocation support is not available for this position.

Work visa / immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Hours per week : Mon‑Fri, 8 : 30 a.m. – 5 : 30 p.m. Salary : $275,000 / yr.

100% Telecommuting permitted.

Benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees’ well‑being and work‑life balance. You can read more about them on our career page (https : / / unity.com / careers).

Unity (NYSE : U) is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, infrastructure experts, filmmakers, and more, use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms, from mobile, PC, and console, to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024, more than 70% of the top 1,000 mobile games were made with Unity, and in 2024, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit Unity (https : / / www.unity.com).

EEO & Privacy

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