Unity

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth

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11 days ago
Washington, DC, USA +2 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$166k - $273k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize budget-pacing controllers using PID methods and probabilistic forecasting.
  • Lead backend integration of Diffusion and LLM models for automated image and video creative generation.
  • Build and scale A/B testing, switchback testing, and long-term holdout experimentation infrastructure.
  • Architect and maintain high-throughput billing pipelines for accurate processing and financial reconciliation at massive scale.
  • Analyze marketplace and financial data to tune pacing and billing logic for advertiser performance.
  • Use Kafka, Flink, or Spark for real-time event-based charging and performance feedback.
  • Lead complex multi-quarter technical roadmaps and mentor senior engineers.

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in computer science or a relevant engineering-related field, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 6 years of software engineering experience, including at least 3 years working on ads delivery systems.
  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale, low-latency backend systems using Java, Go, or Scala.
  • Experience with budget control systems, feedback loops, or spend-prediction algorithms.
  • Experience building or scaling experimentation platforms and understanding variance reduction, interference, network effects, and marketplace metric design.
  • Experience with mission-critical billing, payments, or clearinghouse pipelines requiring precision, idempotency, and fault tolerance.
  • Experience or strong technical interest in backend workflows for serving, scaling, and storing Generative AI models.
  • Proficiency with real-time stream processing using Kafka, Flink, or Spark for event-based charging and performance feedback.
  • Ability to lead technical roadmaps and mentor senior engineers.
  • Experience embracing AI as a strategic engineering advantage and following code quality and security best practices is desirable.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance, commute subsidy, employee stock ownership, retirement or pension plans, vacation and personal days, new-parent and family-care leave, office food and snacks, mental health and wellbeing support, employee resource groups, global employee assistance, training and development, and volunteering and donation matching programs.
  • Benefits eligibility and offerings vary by country and employment status.

Tech Stack

Apache FlinkApache KafkaApache SparkGoJavaScalaUnity
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About Unity

5,001-10,000 employees

Unity is a public software company that builds the Unity real-time 3D engine and services for creating, operating, and monetizing games and interactive 3D content across mobile, PC, console, and XR. It sells subscription licenses and usage-based services such as cloud build, ads, and analytics to studios and enterprises in gaming, automotive, film, and AR/VR. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in San Francisco, it trades on the NYSE (U).

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