Principal Applied Research Machine Learning Engineer, Unity
Game development platform
Open for applications
Game development platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
Democratize game development and enable everyone to create rich interactive content.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a candidate with experience in guiding machine learning development via revolutionary steps to keep Unity Ads at the forefront of ML performance
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 and analysis on how to improve the optimization and machine learning powering our ad networks, market place and audience tools
- As a machine learning and data science expert, you will guide and drive the application of machine learning solutions across the whole organization. Your role will be to:
- Define and execute advanced machine learning models and algorithms to help translate complex business problems
- Be at the forefront of the latest machine learning research to improve Unity’s Ad platform Machine Learning capabilities
- Optimize, improve and innovate ML practices to establish Unity as an industry leader
- 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 as the authority in Data for ML
- Driving the overall direction of the machine learning future for Ads to support strategic goals and vision
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Unity Technologies is one of the world's leading game engines. The platform helps artists and developers in gaming to render 3D worlds in real time.
In recent years Unity has expanded its scope by bringing its technology to new industries, including car companies, and film and TV studios who are using Unity to manage production virtually. Having completed an IPO in 2020, Unity’s capabilities are also being used by companies such as Apple and Android to create better AR experiences.
In 2021, 72% of the top 1000 mobile games and 50% of games across mobile, PC and console were made with Unity. The company operates on over 20 different platforms and is active in 190+ countries and territories across the world and continues to develop its technologies and capabilities.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
4% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
May 2019
$125m
SERIES E
Jun 2018
$145m
SERIES D
Total funding: $893.5m
Company values
- Users first: We put users first… they are rock stars and we are their biggest fans. Our shared dedication to users holds us together, defines and aligns our work and drives us to deliver for them
- Best ideas win: We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We have vigorous debates, we listen and learn, and we make sure the best ideas win. We care enough to go through the pain of messy conversations.
- In it together: We are Citizens of Unity. We act like owners. We’re activists; we have a voice and use it. We’re direct and candid, with good intent. We respect each other’s uniqueness and we’re in it together.
- Go bold: We do bold things. We go big and when we fail, we learn, get better and go big again. We challenge and elevate each other beyond our limits to do what may seem impossible. We stay curious and hungry
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
John Riccitiello
(President & CEO)Previously served as CEO, COO and president of Electronic Arts, and co-founded private equity firm Elevation Partners in 2004. Has served on several company boards.
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