Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Modeling
Overview:
In this Senior ML Engineer role, you will advance ads recommendation models to deliver personalized experiences within Unity's Vector Ads ecosystem. You will work with a high-performing team to translate research into production-ready solutions at scale, leveraging real-time user data and large compute resources. You'll partner with engineering and product teams to shape models that impact advertisers and users, driving measurable business results. This is an opportunity to push the boundaries of AI-powered advertising in a world-leading platform. Compensation / Benefitshealth, life, and disability insurancecommute subsidyemployee stock ownershipretirement/pension plansgenerous vacation and personal daysparental leave program
Responsibilities:
- Understand the ads business, product offering, advertiser goals, and the ads serving pipeline to inform modeling decisions
- Drive foundational research for new models and paradigms
- Leverage rich user data and large-scale compute to validate models rapidly
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to productionalize research
- Contribute to the design of metrics and evaluation frameworks for ad models
- Support end-to-end project delivery and cross-team problem solving
Key requirements:
- Hands-on experience applying state-of-the-art ML/DL models to user behavior modeling
- Proficiency in Python and PyTorch (and DL frameworks)
- Solid understanding of metric design, large-scale data analysis, and distributed computing frameworks
- Proven ability to drive projects end-to-end and deliver measurable business results
- Experience with productionalizing research and collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strategic impact orientation
- Proactive problem solving
- PythonPyTorchDeep learning frameworks