Sr. Machine Learning Developer

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The opportunity
At Unity were committed to building a culture grounded in Empathy Respect and Opportunity. Within our fast-paced and collaborative environment were tackling complex challenges that drive meaningful impact for creators and users across our ecosystem. The Unity Demand Optimization team plays a central role in this effort by building ad campaign optimizations that enable advertisers to efficiently capture user engagement while minimizing their costs. The team leverages machine learning models to incorporate advertisers off-site goals into auction ranking helping them maximize installs key conversions or return on ad spend.

We are seeking a highly skilled staff engineer to take a critical role in building state-of-the-art bidding optimization systems that enable:

Efficient budget pacing across campaigns.

Automated bidding strategies that align with advertiser goals.

Continual system improvement through rigorous experimentation.

Sustainable growth for Unitys advertising business.

What youll be doing

Design implement and maintain high-performance auto-bidding algorithms and advertiser-facing products (e.g. Target ROAS Target CPA).
Ensure these systems meet or exceed campaign performance goals advertiser expectations and system reliability standards.
Lead development on core initiatives such as:
A bid-based budget pacing system that ensures daily budget delivery.
Maximize Conversions which leverages real-time bidding to meet key advertiser goals.
Lowest Cost a product that automates bidding to simplify campaign management.
Target ROAS which lets advertisers scale volume without sacrificing performance targets.
Drive best practices for model quality experimentation system reliability and operational excellence.
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 or a related fieldor equivalent practical experience.
5 years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale Ads delivery and optimization systems.
3 years of experience building control systems PID controllers multi-armed bandits reinforcement learning algorithms or bid/pricing optimization systems.
Significant experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages like Java 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

Relocation support is not available for this position.

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.

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The opportunityAt Unity were committed to building a culture grounded in Empathy Respect and Opportunity. Within our fast-paced and collaborative environment were tackling complex challenges that drive meaningful impact for creators and users across our ecosystem. The Unity Demand Optimization team ...