Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The opportunity

Our Ads Applied Research team is at the heart of innovation in Unity’s monetization products, leveraging machine learning and optimization to improve the performance and user experience of Unity Ads.

We're looking for a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer to help build and improve the machine learning systems that power our high-scale advertising platform. You’ll contribute to model development, platform improvements, and production deployment, working closely with product, engineering, and research teams. This is a great opportunity to grow your skills while working on real-world ML problems at scale.

What you'll be doing

• Help design and build scalable machine learning systems used for ad delivery, bidding, and user engagement.
• Develop and deploy models in a production environment, with support from senior engineers and researchers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—including data science, product, and backend engineering—to align on model goals and integration.
• Support ML experimentation, model training, and A/B testing to evaluate performance and impact.
• Assist in developing infrastructure for training, versioning, deployment, and monitoring of ML models.
• Contribute to platform tooling and MLOps practices, such as model validation, deployment automation, and performance tracking.

What we're looking for

• A degree (Master’s or PhD) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience with Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow.
• Some experience deploying models in production or working with MLOps workflows (e.g., model serving, monitoring, versioning).
• Familiarity with common data tools and platforms
• Interest in building scalable systems and learning about infrastructure and backend engineering.
• A strong analytical mindset with the ability to work with large datasets.
• Good communication skills and a collaborative attitude—you enjoy learning from others and sharing your knowledge.

You might also have

• Exposure to advertising, recommendation systems, or other high-throughput ML applications.
• Interest in contributing to platform development and growing into a more senior role over time.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

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