Senior Data Scientist

5 Months ago • 5 Years + • Artificial Intelligence • $183,700 PA - $248,600 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Senior Data Scientist role requires PhD in technical field, expertise in modeling frameworks, translating research to product innovations.
Must have:
  • PhD technical field
  • Modeling frameworks
  • Research to product
  • Machine learning models
Good to have:
  • Tensorflow, PyTorch
  • Model architectures
  • Data analysis, statistics
  • Machine learning efficacy
Perks:
  • Empathy, Respect
  • Opportunity, Collaboration

Job Details

The opportunity

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. At Unity, you will make a difference. In the Unity Ads Applied Research team, we envision and build systems that help creators capture the value they build!

Come join Unity our Ads Applied Research team to help drive the overall Ads strategy for Unity's products and services. In this position you'll be driving our applied research initiatives to improve the optimization and machine learning powering our ad networks, market place and audience tools.

What you’ll be doing

As a data science expert, you will guide and drive the application of machine learning solutions across the whole organization. Your role will be to:

  • Translate business problems into a design and implement advanced machine learning models and algorithms.

  • Follow up on the latest machine learning research to improve Unity’s Ad platform Machine Learning capabilities

  • Form and validate hypotheses on new aspects of modeling and potency of new datasets for ML.

  • Drive optimization hypotheses by analyzing the drivers for impactful machine learning and arguing the hypotheses and success for the next steps of development.

  • Making requirements and communicating data and machine learning capability needs to the product and engineering teams.

  • Driving the overall direction of machine learning future for Ads

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a candidate with experience in guiding machine learning development via revolutionary steps to keep Unity Ads at the

  • PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field or equivalent experience on interpreting and translating research to applications.

  • Experience successfully taking research and turning it into concrete product innovations with impact.

  • Expertise with modeling frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, PyTroch) and understanding of model architectures and mechanisms.

  • Ability to explain machine learning and interpret the modeling efficacy for further improvements.

  • Capable of conducting analysis, statistics and data literacy to deduct where the challenges and opportunities lie.

Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to create, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

In the fourth quarter of 2022, more than 70% of the top 1000 mobile games were made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1000 games in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. In 2022, Made with Unity Applications had more than 4 billion downloads per month. 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. If there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

Your privacy is important to us. Please take a moment to review our Prospect and Applicant Privacy Policies. Should you have any concerns about your privacy, please contact us at DPO@unity.com.

*Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base pay for the role. The actual base pay for the successful candidate may differ based on location and level.

Gross pay salary

$183,700—$248,600 USD

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