Senior Data Scientist

The opportunity Join a high-impact ML team building state-of-the-art systems that optimize experiences for billions of users. You'll tackle challenging problems across diverse datasets - with the freedom to explore novel approaches and infrastructure to deploy them at scale. What Success Looks Like: Short-term: Ship your first production model with measurable impact within 3 months. Long-term: Own major ML initiatives end-to-end and introduce new methodologies that expand the team's capabilities. Your Impact: Elevate our technical bar with fresh ML perspectives. Shape our roadmap by identifying opportunities others miss. Your research skills keep us cutting-edge while your execution speed drives results. What You'll Gain: Work on real-time ML systems at scale with rich, diverse data Autonomy to define problems and drive projects from idea to impact Freedom to explore emerging techniques and expand your scope Fast feedback loops through strong experimentation infrastructure What you'll be doing Join a high-impact ML team building state-of-the-art systems that optimize experiences for billions of users. You'll tackle challenging problems across diverse datasets - with the freedom to explore novel approaches and infrastructure to deploy them at scale. What Success Looks Like: Short-term: Ship your first production model with measurable impact within 3 months. Long-term: Own major ML initiatives end-to-end and introduce new methodologies that expand the team's capabilities. Your Impact: Elevate our technical bar with fresh ML perspectives. Shape our roadmap by identifying opportunities others miss. Your research skills keep us cutting-edge while your execution speed drives results. What You'll Gain: Work on real-time ML systems at scale with rich, diverse data Autonomy to define problems and drive projects from idea to impact Freedom to explore emerging techniques and expand your scope Fast feedback loops through strong experimentation infrastructure What we're looking for Strong Deep Learning Expertise – Comprehensive knowledge of DL theory paired with the practical intuition gained from training many networks; comfortable working with SOTA pretrained models while understanding the underlying mechanics of convergence and scale. Proven ability to deliver production ML models with measurable business impact - from problem definition through A/B testing -> deployment and outcome tracking AI-Native Builder Mentality – Comfortable breaking conventional development cycles to build fast and ship often. You have a deep mastery of the modern GenAI stack for development, using it to automate the mundane and focus your cognitive load on high-level architecture and model performance. Strong programming skills in Python and Deep Learning stack (PyTorch, scikit-learn, XGBoost) with ability to write clean, efficient code for production systems Self-directed research capability - demonstrated ability to independently explore unfamiliar ML domains, synthesize technical literature, and implement novel approaches Structured problem-solving methodology - ability to decompose complex business problems, design solution approaches, and communicate technical findings to stakeholders You might also have Positivity and enthusiasm Additional information Relocation support is not available for this position Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position 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 Life at Unity Unity [NYSE: U] is the world’s leading game engine, powering play for more than 3 billion consumers each month. The top mobile games in the world, the most played PC indie titles, the most innovative console games, and virtually all of the top XR and Web Games are developed, deployed, and grown in Unity. Unity also enables teams across industries like automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare to design, simulate, and collaborate in 3D — closing the gap between ideas and reality. For more information, please visit www.unity.com. Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. Our differences are strengths that enable us to support the growing and evolving needs of our customers, partners, and collaborators. 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