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Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Conversion ModelingUnity Technologies • San Francisco, California, USA
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Conversion Modeling

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Conversion Modeling

Unity Technologies • San Francisco, California, USA
19 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

The opportunity

At Unity were committed to building a culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. Within our fast-paced environment were tackling complex challenges that drive meaningful impact for creators and users across our ecosystem.

Our Vector 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. These models help advertisers reach the right users at the right time by accurately estimating engagement and conversion likelihood. By leveraging large-scale behavioral data creative features and contextual signals we continuously improve the relevance and accuracy of our predictions. This drives key outcomes such as higher user engagement stronger conversion performance and better return on ad spend enabling advertisers to achieve their goals while delivering a better experience for users.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior ML Engineer to drive state-of-the-art bidding optimization systems that enable efficient budget pacing goal-aligned automated strategies continual improvement through experimentation and sustainable growth for Unity Ads.

What youll be doing

  • Design implement and maintain high-performance CTR and CVR prediction models that power ad ranking and recommendation systems.
  • Build and refine systems for creative understanding and user behavior modeling enabling more accurate and context-aware engagement predictions.
  • Ensure model quality and reliability by continuously monitoring performance calibrating predictions and addressing data drift or delayed feedback.
  • Actively participate and work with other leads to set the long term direction for the team plan and oversee engineering designs and project execution.
  • Effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non-engineering stakeholders.

What were looking for

  • Advanced degree (MS or Ph.D.) in Computer Science Machine Learning Statistics related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale Ads delivery and optimization systems.
  • 3 years of experience building CTR / CVR systems content understanding or behavior modeling systems.
  • Significant experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages like Python Go Scala C or similar.
  • Knowledge of metric design experimentation methodologies and large-scale data analysis.
  • You might also have

  • Experience designing and productionizing optimization algorithms in an ad serving platform and / or other marketplaces.
  • Experience with state-of-the-art control systems reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • Additional information

  • International relocation support is not available for this position
  • Benefits

    At Unity we want our team members to thrive. We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support well-being and work-life balance.

    Please note : Benefits eligibility specific offerings and coverage vary based on the country and employment status.

    While specific benefits vary here are some of the ways we strive to take care of our eligible team members globally : Comprehensive health life and disability insurance Commute subsidy Employee stock ownership Competitive retirement / pension plans Generous vacation and personal days Support for new parents through leave and family-care programs Office food snacks Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support Employee Resource Groups Global Employee Assistance Program Training and development programs Volunteering and donation matching program

    Life at Unity

    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 career page.

    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.

    As of the third quarter of 2024 more than 70% of the top 1000 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 Unity.

    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 that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers partners and collaborators. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience please fill out this form to let us know.

    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.

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