Principal Engineer, Unity Ads

The opportunity

We invite you to take on a meaningful role as Principal SDK Engineer, where you’ll lead the design and development of scalable, privacy-conscious collection systems within our Ads organization. You will play a vital part in gathering, validating, and utilizing behavioral signals across client applications to empower groundbreaking machine learning use cases, such as ad targeting, ranking, and optimization.

This is your chance to work at the exciting intersection of SDK development, machine learning, and data infrastructure. Join us to create innovative solutions that propel advertising technology forward, impacting billions of global ad experiences while ensuring privacy and compliance.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining SDKs that collect high-quality behavioral and contextual signals from client applications such as mobile, desktop, and Unity.
• Establishing and promoting instrumentation standards to ensure high-quality data collection for machine learning systems.
• Collaborating with multi-functional teams, including ML scientists, data engineers, and product managers, to adapt SDKs to evolving ML needs.
• Developing tools and frameworks to validate, monitor, and test collected data in production environments.
• Partnering with privacy and legal teams to ensure compliance with global regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, while prioritizing user consent.

What we're looking for

• Strong proficiency in client application platforms like iOS, Android, Unity, or C++.
• Proven track record in event-based data collection, telemetry, and analytics frameworks.
• Experience in data preprocessing and quality assurance for machine learning pipelines.
• Familiarity with experimentation frameworks, including A/B testing and signal gating.
• Ability to work effectively in multi-functional teams and lead initiatives across SDK, infrastructure, and ML platform teams.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

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

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