Staff Data Scientist

The opportunity

Unity Grow team builds advertising and personalized content delivery solutions used in hundreds of thousands of apps. Our platform processes extensive data sets that are used by machine learning systems living in the core of our various products. Different deep learning techniques are revolutionizing automated decision-making systems and Unity is riding the front wave. Unity is investing heavily in mastering deep learning methodologies and applying them to real-world gaming problems of advertising, engagement, and monetization.

In Demand Performance, we develop groundbreaking machine learning centric products. They provide millions of predictions for recommendations each and every second to optimize efficiency and profitability of user acquisition advertising campaigns. Today we are looking for a staff data scientist to complement our outstanding team! You will have a critical role by driving the ML strategy, envisioning novel deep learning solutions and influencing multiple data science teams that build, ship, and operate machine learning powered solutions. This is an excellent chance to create impact by building data and innovative machine learning methods for the benefit of the game development communities.

What you’ll be doing

• Drive Unity’s user acquisition product from machine learning point of view in close collaboration with other data scientists, product managers and engineers.
• Envision and build state of the art machine learning methods to revolutionize personalized user acquisition advertisement for mobile gaming.
• Design, implement and drive the development of deep learning and online personalized targeting solutions with tech stack of Python/Spark/Tensorflow/Keras/Pytorch.
• Enable the DS teams to develop and ship high quality ML-based real-time online decision-making systems on a large scale.
• Convey ideas, guide execution and mentor teams to grow their talent to build extraordinary machine learning solutions.

What we’re looking for

• Deep understanding of machine learning, from concepts to implementation.
• Experience in implementing varied data and machine learning based online decision-making systems on a large scale.
• Experience with ownership of machine learning products and infrastructure with large data sets, ETLs, data engineering and related services.
• Experience unlocking business opportunities through state of the art ML development.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships across the company to influence people across the organization.

You might also have

• Experience in game advertising or monetization.
• Relevant academic background.
• Experience in working in a fast-paced environment.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• International relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position.

Life at Unity

Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading platform of tools for creators to build and grow real-time games, apps, and experiences across multiple platforms. 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 fourth quarter of 2023, more than 69% of the top 1,000 mobile games are made with Unity as derived from a blended number of the top 1,000 games in the Google Play Store and iOS App Store. In 2023, Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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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. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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