Principal Data Scientist

Job Description

• As a data science expert, guide and drive the application of machine learning solutions across the whole organization • Be at the forefront of the latest machine learning research to improve Unity’s Ad platform Machine Learning capabilities • Optimize, improve and innovate ML practices to establish Unity as an industry leader • Form and validate hypotheses on new aspects of modeling and potency of new datasets for ML. • Drive optimization hypotheses by analyzing the drivers for impactful machine learning and arguing the hypotheses and success for the next steps of development. • Making requirements and communicating data and machine learning capability needs to the product and engineering teams as the authority in Data for ML • Driving the overall direction of the machine learning future for Ads to support strategic goals and vision

Qualifications

• PhD in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field or equivalent experience on interpreting and translating research to applications • Experience successfully taking research and turning it into concrete product innovations with impact • Expertise with modeling frameworks (e.g. Tensorflow, PyTroch) and understanding of model architectures and mechanisms • Ability to explain machine learning and interpret the modeling efficacy for further improvements • Capable of conducting analysis, statistics and data literacy to deduct where the challenges and opportunities lie

Benefits

• 11 paid holidays • Generous Accrued Time Off increasing with years of service • Generous paid sick time • Annual day of service