Unity Director Machine Learning 

United States, California, San Francisco 

810460951

• Oversee the full lifecycle of machine learning systems powering Unity Ads, including ad delivery, bidding strategies, marketplace optimization, and targeting.
• Shape and execute the strategic roadmap for machine learning across Unity’s ads organization.
• Manage and mentor a small, high-performing team of experienced ML engineers and researchers, cultivating technical excellence and strong execution capabilities.
• Transform cutting-edge research into production-ready solutions that deliver tangible business outcomes.
• Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams to align ML initiatives with broader company objectives.
• Oversee experimentation, model evaluation, and performance tuning for production systems operating at scale.
• Establish standards for model development, deployment, monitoring, and ML operations to ensure reliability and scalability.
• Identify and shape strategic investments in data infrastructure, tooling, and research directions to maintain Unity’s competitive edge.
• Identify and shape strategic investments in data infrastructure, tooling, and research directions to maintain Unity’s competitive edge.

• Ph.D. in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Statistics, or related fields.
• 8+ years in ML engineering or applied research, with a proven track record in leading technical initiatives and teams.
• Demonstrated success in delivering robust, scalable ML systems in high-scale domains (e.g., ad tech, recommendation systems, marketplaces).
• Deep knowledge of modern machine learning techniques, frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow), and advanced model architectures.
• Exceptional communication and leadership abilities, with the capacity to influence technical and strategic decisions across teams and functions.
• Hands-on experience designing experiments, analyzing performance, and driving system optimization.
• Familiarity with scalable cloud-based ML deployments, data pipelines, and MLOps best practices.

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.