Senior/Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Data Infrastructure

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Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, Shanghai, CHN
Hybrid
Senior level
AdTech • Artificial Intelligence • Gaming • Machine Learning • Software • Virtual Reality • Metaverse
Unity is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences.
The Role
Design and evolve large-scale offline data infrastructure to generate training datasets and orchestrate multi-stage ML workflows. Build batch and stream processing pipelines (Flink, Spark, Ray), integrate with orchestration systems (Flyte, Airflow), improve reproducibility and observability, optimize performance and cost, and lead architectural direction with ML engineering teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
The Opportunity

Unity Vector builds an Data platform that powers insight, experimentation, attribution, and AI-driven decision-making across the company.

Our systems operate at scale across batch and streaming data, supporting analytics, product intelligence, machine learning pipelines, and business operations. As data volume and complexity grow, our platform also supports large-scale model training, feature generation, and experimentation workflows that power production ML systems.

To support this growth, we need strong technical ownership to ensure our ML pipelines remain reliable, scalable, and architecturally sound.

The Role

We are seeking a senior data infra engineer to design and evolve the large-scale offline platform. This role focuses on building reliable infrastructure for generating data infrastructure, training datasets, and orchestrating data workflows. You will work closely with ML engineers and platform teams to ensure our pipelines can efficiently handle growing data volumes and increasingly complex training workloads.

You will play a key role in shaping how model datasets are prepared to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our data platform.

What You’ll Do
  • Develop infrastructure that supports both batch and stream big data processing using technologies such as Flink, Spark, Ray, etc.
  • Design and operate large-scale data pipelines that generate training datasets used for machine learning training and experimentation
  • Integrate data pipelines with workflow orchestration systems (e.g., Flyte, Airflow, or similar) to enable reliable multi-stage training workflows
  • Improve reproducibility and observability of data pipelines through dataset validation, monitoring, and automated testing
  • Optimize performance and resource utilization across distributed compute systems used for data processing
  • Partner closely with ML engineers to enable efficient large-scale experimentation and model iteration
  • Lead architectural improvements to ensure our offline data pipelines remain scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient
What We’re Looking For
  • Experience working with distributed computing frameworks such as Flink, Spark, Ray for distributed data processing
  • Experience building infrastructure for training data generation, dataset preparation, or ML feature pipelines
  • Experience optimizing big data pipelines and infrastructure for cost efficiency
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience working with large-scale distributed workloads
  • Experience with modern data infrastructure (data lakes, warehouses, orchestration systems, streaming platforms)
  • Strong systems thinking, with the ability to reason about performance, scalability, reliability, and cost tradeoffs in distributed systems
  • Proven ability to lead technical direction and influence architectural decisions across teams without formal authority

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 an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. Therefore, we provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If you have a disability that means there are preparations or accommodations we can make to help ensure you have a comfortable and positive interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Unity does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Unity will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Unity.

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Skills Required

  • Experience with distributed computing frameworks (Flink, Spark, Ray)
  • Experience building infrastructure for training data generation and ML feature pipelines
  • Experience optimizing big data pipelines and infrastructure for cost efficiency
  • Strong programming skills in Python and experience with large-scale distributed workloads
  • Experience with modern data infrastructure (data lakes, data warehouses, streaming platforms)
  • Experience integrating data pipelines with workflow orchestration systems (Flyte, Airflow, or similar)
  • Experience improving reproducibility and observability of data pipelines (dataset validation, monitoring, automated testing)
  • Strong systems thinking about performance, scalability, reliability, and cost tradeoffs in distributed systems
  • Proven ability to lead technical direction and influence architectural decisions across teams

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.

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
4,500 Employees
Year Founded: 2004

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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