Unity Principal Machine Learning Engineer 

United States, New York, New York 

149740848

What you'll be doing

• As a machine learning and data science expert, you will guide, drive, and implement machine learning applications and solutions across the whole organization. Your role will be to:
• Define and execute advanced machine learning models and algorithms to production to help solve 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 in machine learning
• Form and validate hypotheses on new aspects of modeling and potency of new datasets for various use cases
• Drive optimization hypotheses by analyzing the drivers for impactful ML solutions, arguing the hypotheses, and building a roadmap 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.

What we're looking for

• 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 practical applications.
• Experience successfully taking research and turning it into concrete product innovations with impact.
• Hands-on expertise with modeling frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, PyTorch) 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.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.

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.

*Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base pay for the role. The actual base pay for the successful candidate may differ based on location and level.Gross pay salary$217,400—$294,100 USD