Unity Technologies

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth

Unity Technologies$140K — $223K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree in computer science or related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ year in ads delivery systems.
  • Experience with large-scale, low-latency backend systems using Java, Go, or Scala.
  • Familiarity with budget control systems and spend-prediction algorithms.
  • Proven track record in building experimentation platforms with an understanding of variance reduction and metric design.
  • Experience managing mission-critical pipelines where data precision is crucial.
  • Technical interest in backend workflows for Generative AI model support.

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize advanced budget pacing controllers to manage advertiser spend effectively.
  • Integrate Generative AI models to automate high-performing creative asset generation.
  • Build and scale an experimentation engine for marketplace changes to enhance advertiser ROI.
  • Architect high-throughput billing pipelines ensuring accuracy in processing events.
  • Analyze datasets to optimize spend velocity and advertiser performance using experimentation results.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health, life, and disability insurance
  • Commute subsidy
  • Employee stock ownership
  • Competitive retirement/pension plans
  • Generous vacation and personal days
  • Support for new parents with leave and family-care programs
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing programs
Full Job Description
The opportunity

The Advertiser Growth team is the engine of this mission, ensuring that as our marketplace expands, advertisers have the intelligent tools, robust infrastructure, and rigorous experimentation frameworks needed to scale their impact.
In 2026, our roadmap is defined by three transformative pillars: Foundation, Smart, and Intelligence. This role is unique in its technical breadth, sitting at the intersection of financial execution, creative innovation, and marketplace science. You will architect the GenAI systems that build high-performing creatives, design the pacing algorithms that manage multi-million dollar budgets, ensure our billing pipelines handle massive scale with zero-fault tolerance, and build the experimentation infrastructure that allows us to scientifically evolve the marketplace. This is a high-stakes role where your technical leadership directly governs Unity's financial integrity and the long-term growth of our ecosystem.

What you'll be doing
  • Next-Gen budget pacing: Design and optimize sophisticated pacing controllers (PID, probabilistic forecasting) to smooth advertiser spend across diverse time zones and traffic spikes, ensuring optimal delivery and marketplace stability.
  • Creative GenAI infrastructure: Lead the backend integration of Generative AI models (Diffusion, LLMs) to automate the creation of high-performing image and video assets tailored to specific campaign goals and formats.
  • Marketplace experimentation engine: Build and scale the infrastructure for high-velocity experimentation, including A/B testing, switchback tests, and long-term holdouts to measure the impact of marketplace changes on advertiser ROI and platform health.
  • High-Scale billing reliability: Architect and maintain high-throughput billing pipelines that process billions of events with 100% accuracy, bridging the gap between real-time ad delivery and mission-critical financial reconciliation.
  • Scientific optimization: Analyze complex financial and marketplace datasets to refine the trade-off between spend velocity and advertiser performance, using experimentation results to tune pacing and billing logic.

What we're looking for
  • Advanced degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience.
  • 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ year working on ads delivery systems.
  • Extensive experience building and operating large-scale, low-latency backend systems using languages like Java, Go, or Scala.
  • Deep familiarity with building or maintaining budget control systems, feedback loops, or spend-prediction algorithms.
  • Proven experience building or scaling experimentation platforms, with a deep understanding of variance reduction, interference/network effects, and metric design in a marketplace context.
  • A track record of working on "mission-critical" pipelines (like billing, payments, or clearinghouses) where data precision, idempotency, and fault tolerance are paramount.
  • Experience or strong technical interest in building the backend workflows required to serve, scale, and store Generative AI models for creative asset generation.
  • Proficiency with real-time stream processing (Kafka, Flink, or Spark) specifically applied to event-based charging and real-time performance feedback.
  • A proven ability to lead complex, multi-quarter technical roadmaps and mentor senior engineers in a high-growth environment.

Additional information
  • 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

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*Note: Certain locations require a good faith disclosure of the base salary range for the role. The actual salary for the successful candidate may differ based on location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Gross pay salary

$140,700-$223,400 USD

About Unity Technologies

Unity Technologies is a software company that provides a platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D content. The company's platform is used by game developers, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and other creators to build and distribute interactive experiences. Unity Technologies was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has offices in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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