The opportunity
Join our Ad Tech team as a dedicated and forward-thinking Machine Learning Engineer, where you will help shape the future of digital advertising. This role is perfect for someone who has recently completed their PhD and is eager to apply groundbreaking research to large-scale, real-world systems. You will participate in transformative projects that not only enhance advertiser performance and user experiences but also power billions of ad impressions. This position goes beyond traditional engineering by requiring you to bring deep scientific expertise and translate it into practical, scalable solutions across our advertising platform.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design, build, and deploy machine learning models for ad ranking, targeting, bidding, and attribution.
- Develop solutions for both batch and real-time systems to positively influence important metrics like click-through rate, return on investment, revenue, and user engagement.
- Collaborate with multi-functional teams including product managers, applied scientists, and backend engineers.
- Translate cutting-edge research into production-ready solutions using scalable infrastructure and implementing best practices.
- Analyze model performance, conduct A/B testing, and refine approaches based on the results.
What We're Looking For
- Background in machine learning, optimization, statistics, or reinforcement learning.
- Proficiency in Python or similar programming languages, and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch.
- Solid software engineering skills and experience in production-grade systems.
- Strong analytical abilities with experience in experimentation and making data-driven decisions.
- Effective written/verbal communication to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
You might also have
- Experience in advertising systems, recommendation engines, or large-scale prediction systems.
- Familiarity with ad auctions, user modeling, causal inference, or performance optimization strategies.
- Experience with large-scale data processing tools such as Spark, Kafka, or Airflow.
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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Gross pay salary
$107,600—$145,700 USD
