Senior Machine Learning Engineer, User Understanding

<p><strong>The opportunity</strong><br>At Unity, we’re committed to building a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Within our fast-paced environment, we’re tackling complex challenges that drive meaningful impact for creators and users across our ecosystem.</p> <p>Our Foundation Modeling team plays a central role in this effort by developing state-of-the-art conversion rate (CVR) prediction and market price models that power our ad ranking and recommendation systems. By leveraging large-scale data and contextual signals, we continuously enhance prediction relevance and accuracy. This drives outcomes such as higher user engagement, stronger conversion performance, and better return on ad spend—helping advertisers achieve their goals while delivering a more engaging experience for users.</p> <p>We are seeking a highly skilled Senior ML Engineer to build and maintain advanced systems for understanding user behavior across applications. You will be responsible for improving ad ranking, conversion predictions, and recommendation systems, enabling richer behavioral models, smarter bidding strategies, and more effective ad performance.</p> <p><strong>What you'll be doing</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, implement, and maintain user understanding models.</li> <li>Ensure model quality and reliability by continuously monitoring performance, calibrating predictions, and addressing data drift or delayed feedback.</li> <li>Actively participate and work with other leads to set the long-term direction for the team, plan and oversee engineering designs and project execution.</li> <li>Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-engineering stakeholders.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we're looking for</strong></p> <ul> <li>Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, related field, or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>5+ years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale Ads delivery and optimization systems.</li> <li>3+ years of experience in content understanding, behavior modeling, user profiling, and cohort analysis.</li> <li>Significant experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages like Python, Go, Scala, C++ or similar.</li> <li>Knowledge of metric design, experimentation methodologies, and large-scale data analysis.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You might also have</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience designing and productionizing optimization algorithms in an ad serving platform and/or other marketplaces.</li> <li>Experience with state-of-the-art control systems, reinforcement learning algorithms.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Additional information</strong></p> <ul> <li>International relocation support is not available for this position</li> </ul> <p><strong>Life at Unity</strong><br>We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees' well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our <a href="https://unity.com/careers">career page</a>.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 <a href="https://www.unity.com">Unity</a>.</p> <p><em>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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)