Unity
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Enterprise · Game engine
Currently tracking 35 active AI roles, down 46% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Serve · Engineering. Salary range $100k–$300k (avg $197k).
Unity has 38 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on agents, representing 32% of the roles, and serving infrastructure at 29%. The majority of these positions are within the Engineering function, with hiring concentrated in the United States. Frequent technical tags include model_serving, inference_infra, and agent_orchestration, suggesting a direction toward operationalizing AI models. In the last 30 days, Unity has posted 27 new AI roles, a substantial increase of 440% compared to the previous 30-day period.
Unity currently has 53 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth (4), Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure (4), Machine Learning Engineer, Next-Generation Recommendation Systems (New Grad / PhD) (3), Senior Data Scientist (3), Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer (3). Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Unity's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (36%), serving infrastructure (28%), data (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Unity is hiring AI talent in: United States (40 roles), Canada (5 roles), Israel (4 roles), China (4 roles).
Job postings at Unity most frequently reference: model serving, inference infra, recommender systems, agent orchestration, llm observability.
In the past 30 days, Unity has posted 13 new AI-related roles. That is a -62% change versus the prior 30 days (34 → 13).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Computer Vision & Multi-Modal AI Staff ML Engineer focused on Computer Vision and Multi-Modal AI for game experiences. The role involves translating research into production systems, defining modeling and deployment strategies, and leading technical decisions across the ML stack. Responsibilities include designing and implementing models for image/video understanding and generation, optimizing for various deployment targets, and mentoring engineers. The goal is to enhance AI features for billions of players. | ServePost-train | 9 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, On-Device & Mobile AI Optimization Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on optimizing and deploying state-of-the-art multi-modal AI models (transformers, diffusion, VLMs) for on-device execution on mobile and constrained hardware. This involves model export, quantization, graph transformation, operator fusion, kernel-level tuning (WebGPU, Metal, Vulkan, CUDA), and integration with game engines, aiming for low latency, small memory footprint, and reliable performance within strict budgets. |
| ServePost-train |
| 8 |
| Principal Forward Deployed Engineer Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with departments (Finance, Legal, Marketing, etc.) at Unity to transform workflows using AI, agents, and automated workflows. This role involves writing production code, designing and deploying agents, building integrations, and partnering with non-technical stakeholders to solve real problems and improve efficiency. | Agent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Next-Generation Recommendation Systems (New Grad / PhD) This role focuses on designing, building, and evaluating next-generation recommendation and ranking systems for ads, incorporating LLMs, RLHF, and preference learning. It involves developing user understanding systems, applying reinforcement learning to bidding strategies, and conducting rigorous experiments. The role partners with engineering to bring research ideas into production across the full pipeline. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Next-Generation Recommendation Systems (New Grad / PhD) This role focuses on designing, building, and evaluating next-generation recommendation and ranking systems for ads, incorporating LLMs, RLHF, and preference learning. It involves developing user understanding systems, applying reinforcement learning to bidding strategies, and conducting rigorous experiments. The role partners with engineering to bring research ideas into production across the full pipeline. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Next-Generation Recommendation Systems (New Grad / PhD) This role focuses on designing, building, and evaluating next-generation recommendation and ranking systems for ads, incorporating LLMs, RLHF, and preference learning. It involves developing user understanding systems, applying reinforcement learning to bidding strategies, and conducting rigorous experiments. The role partners with engineering to bring research ideas into production across the full pipeline. | ShipPost-train | 8 |
| Senior AI Engineer Senior AI Engineer at Unity to build and deploy LLM-powered agents and production AI infrastructure, embedding agentic workflows into the engineering culture. Responsibilities include designing autonomous agents, tackling complex engineering challenges, scaling AI-driven tooling, owning the full lifecycle of AI features, building evaluation pipelines and observability tooling, and collaborating cross-functionally. Requires 5+ years of software engineering experience with 1-2 years in shipping AI/LLM systems, strong backend skills, hands-on experience with agentic systems and production LLMs, cloud platforms, and evaluation/observability tooling. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vector Bidding Science Staff Machine Learning Engineer to architect and optimize scalable real-time bidding systems using AI and advanced optimization frameworks for Unity's ads engine, focusing on maximizing advertiser returns through state-of-the-art bidding and pacing algorithms. | Serve | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vector Bidding Science Senior Machine Learning Engineers to join the Vector Bidding Science team, focusing on architecting and scaling real-time bidding systems powered by AI and advanced optimization. The role involves designing bidding algorithms, forecasting capabilities, analyzing marketplace dynamics, and driving evaluations to maximize advertiser returns within Unity's ads engine. | Agent | 8 |
| Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Mobile AI Inference Optimization Principal Machine Learning Engineer focused on optimizing multi-modal AI model inference for mobile on-device deployment at Unity. This role involves technical leadership in model compression, quantization, pruning, knowledge distillation, and selecting inference runtimes. The engineer will own the end-to-end optimization pipeline, translate research into deployable implementations, and mentor a team. Requires 8+ years of ML engineering experience with a focus on on-device inference optimization and production deployment of transformer or generative models on mobile hardware. | ServePost-train | 8 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at Unity, focusing on building and deploying state-of-the-art ML systems to optimize user experiences for billions of users. The role involves tackling challenging problems with diverse datasets, exploring novel approaches, and deploying models at scale. Success is defined by shipping production models with measurable impact within 3 months and owning major ML initiatives end-to-end long-term. Requires strong Deep Learning expertise, proven ability to deliver production ML models, an AI-Native Builder Mentality, strong programming skills in Python and the Deep Learning stack, self-directed research capability, and a structured problem-solving methodology. | Ship | 8 |
| ML Infrastructure Engineer - (Early Career/Internship) ML Engineer role focused on building and maintaining the offline ML platform infrastructure for data pipelines, distributed model training, and ML workflows. This role supports large-scale model training, feature generation, and experimentation, bridging research and production at scale. | Data | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure - Online Staff ML Engineer focused on building and operating the online ML inference platform at Unity. This role involves designing, optimizing, and scaling infrastructure for serving production ML models with low latency and high reliability, supporting experimentation, and improving observability. The focus is on the infrastructure that enables ML models to be deployed and run efficiently in a production environment. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure - Offline Staff ML Engineer focused on building and evolving the large-scale offline ML platform for data generation, workflow orchestration, and distributed model training at Unity. | Data | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure - Online Senior/Staff ML Engineer to design and evolve Unity Vector’s online model inference platform. Focuses on building reliable infrastructure for serving ML models in production, optimizing inference performance, and enabling safe, efficient experimentation across high-traffic online systems. Requires strong systems thinking, deep experience with production ML infrastructure, and ability to drive architectural improvements. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure - Offline Senior ML Engineer focused on building and operating a large-scale offline ML platform for Unity. The role involves designing and evolving data pipelines for training datasets, orchestrating ML workflows, and enabling efficient, distributed model training. Key responsibilities include developing infrastructure for distributed training, integrating with orchestration systems, and optimizing performance. | DataServe | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Vector Bidding Science Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and optimizing real-time bidding systems for Unity's ads engine, leveraging AI and advanced optimization to maximize advertiser returns. This role involves designing algorithms, forecasting capabilities, analyzing marketplace dynamics, and driving evaluations. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Vector Bidding Science Senior Machine Learning Engineers to join the Vector Bidding Science team, focusing on defining technical vision and architecting next-generation scalable real-time bidding systems powered by AI, marketplace intelligence, and advanced optimization frameworks. The role involves developing state-of-the-art bidding and pacing algorithms to maximize advertiser returns by harnessing massive datasets and rich signals. | Agent | 7 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, User Understanding (Entry-Level / New Grad) Machine Learning Engineer role focused on developing and optimizing user behavior models for ad ranking, bidding, and conversion predictions within Unity's ad platform. The role involves designing, implementing, and monitoring these models to enhance user engagement and ad performance. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Backend Engineer, ML Inference Systems Senior Backend Engineer focused on building and operating the infrastructure for large-scale ML model inference, handling billions of daily requests with a focus on performance, reliability, and scalability. | Serve | 7 |
| Développeur(se) Backend Sénior, Systèmes d’inférence ML / Senior Backend Engineer, ML Inference Systems Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building and operating distributed systems that handle billions of daily requests for ML inference, focusing on low latency, high throughput, reliability, and scalability. The role involves defining technical direction for the inference platform, collaborating with ML developers, and managing cloud infrastructure. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Experimentation & Measurements Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the evolution of the Ads Experimentation Platform at Unity. This role focuses on validating and optimizing global advertising ecosystem by bridging advanced statistical methodology with large-scale engineering. Responsibilities include evaluating ad delivery systems, driving product decisions through analytics, advancing the experimentation platform with methodologies like CUPED and sequential testing, defining LTV proxy metrics, and driving automated ML experimentation pipelines. The role requires expertise in causal inference, experimental design, and large-scale data processing within the Ad Tech domain. | ShipData | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Experimentation & Measurements Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the evolution of the Ads Experimentation Platform at Unity. This role focuses on validating and optimizing global advertising ecosystem by bridging advanced statistical methodology with large-scale engineering. Responsibilities include evaluating ad delivery systems, driving product decisions through analytics, advancing the experimentation platform with methodologies like CUPED and sequential testing, defining LTV proxy metrics, and driving automated ML experimentation pipelines. The role requires expertise in causal inference, experimental design, and large-scale data processing within the Ad Tech domain. | ShipData | 7 |
| Développeuse ou développeur côté serveur (backend) Staff — Systèmes d’inférence ML / Staff Backend Engineer, ML Inference Systems Staff Backend Engineer responsible for designing, building, and operating production-grade distributed systems for large-scale, low-latency ML model inference, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability within a cloud environment (GCP, Kubernetes). | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist at Unity's Aura platform, focusing on leading research, design, and end-to-end development of large-scale machine learning systems, particularly recommendation systems. The role involves building and deploying scalable online models, driving projects from business questions to production, and collaborating across teams. Requires strong software engineering, deep learning, and big data experience, with a preference for LLM/agentic framework and observability experience. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer for Unity's Vector Ads team, focusing on building and operating real-time, high-scale, low-latency ML serving infrastructure for a global advertising platform. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining serving pipelines, partnering with ML engineers for productionization, and improving infrastructure efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer for Unity's Vector Ads team, focusing on building and operating real-time, high-scale, low-latency ML serving infrastructure for a global advertising platform. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining serving pipelines, partnering with ML engineers for productionization, and improving infrastructure efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer at Unity's Vector Ads team, focusing on building and operating real-time, high-scale, low-latency infrastructure for serving ML models in production for Unity's global advertising platform. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining serving pipelines, partnering with ML engineers, and improving infrastructure performance and cost-efficiency. | Serve | 7 |
| Staff Backend Engineer, ML Inference Systems Staff Backend Engineer focused on building and operating the infrastructure for ML models that govern ad ranking and bidding decisions across billions of daily impressions. The role involves designing and operating distributed systems for large-scale online model inference, emphasizing performance, reliability, and scalability of inference systems. | Serve | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth Senior Machine Learning Engineer role focused on building GenAI systems for creative asset generation, designing budget pacing algorithms, developing marketplace experimentation infrastructure, and ensuring high-scale billing reliability within Unity's ad-tech ecosystem. The role requires strong backend systems experience and leadership in a high-growth environment. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth Senior Machine Learning Engineer role focused on building GenAI systems for creative asset generation, designing budget pacing algorithms, developing marketplace experimentation infrastructure, and ensuring high-scale billing reliability within Unity's ad-tech ecosystem. The role requires strong backend systems experience and leadership in a high-growth environment. | Agent | 7 |
| GTM Operations and AI Systems Architect This role focuses on leveraging AI agents, integrations, and workflow automations within the MarTech stack to drive Marketing & Sales goals. The individual will act as a marketing AI subject matter expert, identifying and automating improvements in the Go-to-market function by building AI agents and workflow automations. They will also audit and optimize existing GTM operations, translate business objectives into technical solutions, and manage custom integrations. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Developer, Advertiser Growth | Développeur(euse) Sénior en apprentissage machine, Advertiser Growth Senior Machine Learning Developer for Unity's Advertiser Growth team, focusing on building GenAI systems for ad creatives, designing pacing algorithms for multi-million dollar budgets, ensuring billing pipeline reliability, and developing experimentation infrastructure. The role involves architecting GenAI systems, optimizing pacing controllers, integrating Generative AI models, building high-velocity experimentation infrastructure, and maintaining high-throughput billing pipelines. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure Staff ML Engineer focused on building and operating a large-scale offline ML platform for data generation, feature engineering, and distributed model training at Unity. | Data | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure Staff ML Engineer focused on building and operating a large-scale offline ML platform for Unity, supporting data pipelines, distributed model training, and experimentation workflows. | Data | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure Staff ML Engineer focused on building and evolving a large-scale offline ML platform for data pipelines, distributed model training, and feature generation at Unity. | Data | 7 |
| Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML Infrastructure Staff ML Engineer focused on building and evolving a large-scale offline ML platform for data pipelines, distributed model training, and feature generation at Unity. | Data | 7 |
| Artiste Technique Sénior, IA / Senior Technical Artist, AI Senior Technical Artist for Unity AI Authoring team, focused on designing and building AI-powered workflows, pipelines, and tools for game creation. The role involves integrating AI agents with game assets, prototyping AI-driven game systems, and researching emerging AI technologies in gaming. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Technical Artist, AI / Artiste Technique Sénior, IA This role focuses on designing and building AI-driven workflows, pipelines, and tools to revolutionize game creation within Unity. It involves integrating AI agents with game assets, rapid prototyping of AI-powered game systems, and bringing real-world assets into real-time applications, with an emphasis on AI-assisted game creation and LLM datasets. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior AI Integrations Engineer Senior AI Integrations Engineer at Unity, focusing on adapting PolySpatial to stream Unity content into other game engines and 3D environments. The role involves defining protocols, formats, and runtime systems for interactive 3D content, enabling AI-driven tools and systems to interact with engine state and capabilities. Requires strong C++ and C# skills, core engine experience, and practical AI/ML integration experience. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior AI Integrations Engineer Senior AI Integrations Engineer at Unity, focusing on adapting PolySpatial to stream Unity content into other game engines and 3D environments. The role involves defining protocols, formats, and runtime systems for interactive 3D content, enabling AI-driven tools and systems to interact with engine state and capabilities. Requires strong C++ and C# skills, core engine experience, and practical AI/ML integration experience. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Conversion Modeling Senior ML Engineer role focused on building and operating state-of-the-art conversion rate (CVR) prediction and market price models for Unity's ad ranking and recommendation systems. The role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining high-performance CTR/CVR prediction models, building systems for creative understanding and user behavior modeling, and ensuring model quality and reliability. This is a customer-facing product role within the consumer domain. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Account Manager, Programmatic Senior Account Manager for Unity's programmatic advertising platform, focusing on client relationships, campaign execution, data storytelling, and revenue growth. The role involves leveraging Unity's AI-driven advertising platform and data platform, which combines proprietary signals with 1PD and 3PD audiences for targeting. The role also includes expanding into CTV, Display, and DOOH markets. | — | 5 |
| Développeuse ou développeur en développement et exploitation (DevOps) sénior, Asset Manager / Senior DevOps Developer, Asset Manager Senior DevOps Developer responsible for deploying and managing the Unity Asset Manager in public cloud and enabling enterprise clients to run it in their private cloud environments. Focus on building robust deployment pipelines, infrastructure, and tools for both public and private deployments, with a strong emphasis on observability, security, and reliability. The role also involves extending these deployment models to other Unity products and services. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Product Manager, XR Platforms Senior Technical Product Manager for Unity's XR Platforms, responsible for defining the roadmap, managing partner relationships, and collaborating with R&D on AI-driven authoring tools to enhance XR capabilities. The role focuses on shipping complex technical products and influencing stakeholders. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Product Manager, XR Platforms Senior Technical Product Manager for Unity's XR Platforms, responsible for the platform roadmap, partner negotiations, and driving the evolution of XR capabilities, including AI-assisted creation and authoring tools, to shape what creators can build. | — | 5 |
| Senior Technical Product Manager, XR Platforms Senior Technical Product Manager for Unity's XR Platforms, responsible for the platform roadmap, partner negotiations, and driving the evolution of XR capabilities, including AI-assisted creation, to shape what creators can build. | — | 5 |
| Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager This role is for a Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager at Unity, focusing on identifying, structuring, and scaling new business opportunities and partnerships, particularly those at the intersection of AI, data, and the Unity runtime. The role involves new opportunity development, program incubation, financial modeling, due diligence, and deal negotiation. While not directly building AI models, the role is deeply involved in scaling AI-related business initiatives and partnerships. | — | 5 |
| Senior Developer Operations Engineer DevOps Engineer focused on modern infrastructure through Automation, IaC, and CI/CD practices in a multi-cloud environment, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes (GKE). The role involves exploring and implementing AI tooling to enhance operational efficiency, security, and predictive maintenance. | — | 5 |
| Android Technical Lead This role is for an Android Technical Lead at Unity, focusing on building and scaling a large-scale mobile content discovery platform. The role involves leading technical direction, designing features, mentoring developers, and driving the adoption of AI-assisted development tools and modern Android technologies. The goal is to enhance productivity, code quality, and developer experience through AI integration and sound engineering practices. | — | 5 |