The opportunity
Unity is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Infrastructure Engineer to join our Vector Ads team, where we build the real-time systems that power Unity's global advertising platform. This is a high-scale, low-latency environment — processing billions of requests daily to deliver fast, relevant ads to players around the world.
You'll build and operate the infrastructure that brings ML models from training into production, ensuring our ranking, bidding, and targeting systems run reliably at scale. This is a great opportunity for an engineer who's excited to work at the intersection of ML systems and distributed infrastructure, collaborate across teams, and have direct impact on how machine learning shapes the player and advertiser experience.
What you'll be doing
- Design, build, and maintain the infrastructure that serves ML models in real-time across Unity's ads ecosystem
- Build and operate scalable model serving pipelines — owning latency, throughput, and reliability in a high-QPS production environment
- Partner with ML engineers to productionize models, manage model deployments, and improve iteration speed
- Improve observability, performance, and cost-efficiency of ML serving infrastructure
- Contribute to architectural decisions around feature serving, model versioning, and inference optimization
What we're looking for
- Experience building and operating ML infrastructure or model serving systems in production
- Proficiency in Golang or Python, with strong systems engineering fundamentals
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
- Familiarity with ML serving frameworks such as Ray Serve, Triton, TorchServe, or similar
- Understanding of distributed systems, API design, and system reliability
- Strong collaboration and communication skills in a remote-first environment
You might also have
- Experience with feature stores, feature pipelines, or online/offline feature serving
- Background in ad tech, real-time bidding, or programmatic advertising systems
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform
- Experience with observability tooling — Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
- Background with real-time data pipelines, caching layers, or low-latency serving systems
Additional information
- Relocation support 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.
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Skills Required
- Experience building and operating ML infrastructure or model serving systems in production
- Proficiency in Golang or Python
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale
- Familiarity with ML serving frameworks
- Understanding of distributed systems, API design, and system reliability
Unity Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Unity and has not been reviewed or approved by Unity.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, vision, life/disability, and mental‑health/EAP offerings are positioned as comprehensive across eligible locations. This breadth aligns with large‑tech standards and is highlighted in official materials.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) plan with employer matching is part of the U.S. package. Retirement benefits are characterized as competitive and a stable element of total rewards.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave and family‑care support are emphasized, with indications of generous time off for new parents. These programs are presented as global in scope, with specifics verified by location.
Unity Insights
What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
We believe the world is a better place with more creators in it. This is at the core of our business because we believe our technology can change the world. Our products give content creators the tools to not just entertain but to create innovative RT3D experiences and deliver better processes for almost every industry.
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