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# Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Advertiser Growth

- **Company:** Unity Technologies
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $210,300.0 - $273,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), A/B Testing, Artificial Intelligence, Software Quality, Fault Tolerance, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Apache Spark, Generative AI, Backend, Information Technology, Low Latency, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Stable Diffusion, Marketplace, Stream Processing
- **Published:** September 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.seattlejobs.com/job.asp?id=3385150235&tx=JJ10195LFR&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* Advanced degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience.
 * 6+ years of software engineering experience, including 3+ years working on ads delivery systems.
 * Extensive experience building and operating large-scale, low-latency backend systems using languages like Java, Go, or Scala.
 * Deep familiarity with building or maintaining budget control systems, feedback loops, or spend-prediction algorithms.
 * Proven experience building or scaling experimentation platforms, with a deep understanding of variance reduction, interference/network effects, and metric design in a marketplace context.
 * A track record of working on "mission-critical" pipelines (like billing, payments, or clearinghouses) where data precision, idempotency, and fault tolerance are paramount.
 * Experience or strong technical interest in building the backend workflows required to serve, scale, and store Generative AI models for creative asset generation.
 * Proficiency with real-time stream processing (Kafka, Flink, or Spark) specifically applied to event-based charging and real-time performance feedback.
 * A proven ability to lead complex, multi-quarter technical roadmaps and mentor senior engineers in a high-growth environment.

You might also have

 * Experience embracing AI as a strategic advantage in engineering, following established best practices for code quality and security.

## Description

* Next-Gen budget pacing: Design and optimize sophisticated pacing controllers (PID, probabilistic forecasting) to smooth advertiser spend across diverse time zones and traffic spikes, ensuring optimal delivery and marketplace stability.
 * Creative GenAI infrastructure: Lead the backend integration of Generative AI models (Diffusion, LLMs) to automate the creation of high-performing image and video assets tailored to specific campaign goals and formats.
 * Marketplace experimentation engine: Build and scale the infrastructure for high-velocity experimentation, including A/B testing, switchback tests, and long-term holdouts to measure the impact of marketplace changes on advertiser ROI and platform health.
 * High-Scale billing reliability: Architect and maintain high-throughput billing pipelines that process billions of events with 100% accuracy, bridging the gap between real-time ad delivery and mission-critical financial reconciliation.
 * Scientific optimization: Analyze complex financial and marketplace datasets to refine the trade-off between spend velocity and advertiser performance, using experimentation results to tune pacing and billing logic., 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.

This posting is intended to fill an existing vacancy, and we are committed to providing applicants with updates throughout the hiring process in accordance with applicable law.

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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