Unity Technologies

Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Unity Technologies$200K — $260K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in data infrastructure engineering or a related field
  • Expertise in distributed computing frameworks such as Flink, Spark, and Ray
  • Proficient in Python with a focus on large-scale distributed workloads
  • Strong understanding of modern data architectures like data lakes and warehouses
  • Experience in optimizing big data pipelines for cost efficiency
  • Ability to influence architectural decisions across teams without formal authority
  • Systems thinking with a focus on performance, scalability, reliability, and cost tradeoffs

Responsibilities

  • Develop infrastructure for batch and stream big data processing
  • Design and operate large-scale data pipelines for machine learning
  • Integrate pipelines with workflow orchestration systems for training workflows
  • Enhance reproducibility and observability of data pipelines
  • Optimize performance and resource utilization across distributed systems
  • Collaborate with ML engineers for efficient large-scale experimentation
  • Lead improvements to maintain scalable and reliable offline data pipelines

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 through leave and family-care programs
  • Mental Health and Wellbeing programs and support
  • Training and development programs
  • Volunteering and donation matching program
Full Job Description
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Data Infrastructure

Unity Vector builds an Data platform that powers insight, experimentation, attribution, and AI-driven decision-making across the company.

Our systems operate at scale across batch and streaming data, supporting analytics, product intelligence, machine learning pipelines, and business operations. As data volume and complexity grow, our platform also supports large-scale model training, feature generation, and experimentation workflows that power production ML systems.

To support this growth, we need strong technical ownership to ensure our ML pipelines remain reliable, scalable, and architecturally sound.
The Role

We are seeking a senior data infra engineer to design and evolve the large-scale offline platform. This role focuses on building reliable infrastructure for generating data infrastructure, training datasets, and orchestrating data workflows. You will work closely with ML engineers and platform teams to ensure our pipelines can efficiently handle growing data volumes and increasingly complex training workloads.

You will play a key role in shaping how model datasets are prepared to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data platform.

What You'll Do
  • Develop infrastructure that supports both batch and stream big data processing using technologies such as Flink, Spark, Ray, etc.
  • Design and operate large-scale data pipelines that generate training datasets used for machine learning training and experimentation
  • Integrate data pipelines with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, or similar) to enable reliable multi-stage training workflows
  • Improve reproducibility and observability of data pipelines through dataset validation, monitoring, and automated testing
  • Optimize performance and resource utilization across distributed compute systems used for data processing
  • Partner closely with ML engineers to enable efficient large-scale experimentation and model iteration
  • Lead architectural improvements to ensure our offline data pipelines remain scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient
What We're Looking For
  • Experience working with distributed computing frameworks such as Flink, Spark, Ray for distributed data processing
  • Experience building infrastructure for training data generation, dataset preparation, or ML feature pipelines
  • Experience optimizing big data pipelines and infrastructure for cost efficiency
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience working with large-scale distributed workloads
  • Experience with modern data infrastructure (data lakes, warehouses, orchestration systems, streaming platforms)
  • Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason about performance, scalability, reliability, and cost tradeoffs in distributed systems
  • Proven ability to lead technical direction and influence architectural decisions across teams without formal authority


Additional information:
  • Relocation support is not available for this position.
  • Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position
  • $200,400-$260,500


This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate's relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

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

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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