# Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Unity

- Company: Unity
- What the company does: Develop, deploy, and grow with Unity, the world’s leading 3D game engine. Build for all major platforms from mobile, to PC and console as well as XR, acquire players, monetize your game, and power industrial applications. Backed by Sequoia.
- Company website: https://www.unity3d.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View, CA, USA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $218K to $284K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-25
- Apply by: 2026-11-09
- Apply: https://unitytech.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Unity/job/Mountain-View-CA-USA/Senior-Machine-Learning-Engineer_JOBREQ-2616280
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/unity-staff-machine-learning-engineer-2/

## About the role

Unity is building next-generation intelligence systems for gaming: systems that help AI-native teams understand the market and get the most out of the frontier models.

## What they're looking for

- Experience in machine learning with a track record of owning production ML systems end to end, from data to serving to measured business outcome
- Deep experience in performance marketing or ad-tech modeling: predicting acquisition cost, lifetime value, return on ad spend, retention or comparable outcomes
- Strong grounding in probabilistic prediction and calibration: quantile or interval prediction, coverage, bias correction and backtesting of forecasts
- Experience building LLM-based agent systems in production: orchestration, evaluation harnesses, prompt and model versioning, and cost control
- Strong Python and modern ML tooling, plus solid data systems fundamentals across a relational store, a columnar analytics store and an event stream
- Proven ability to drive technical direction across teams, mentor senior engineers, and influence decisions without formal authority