Senior Data Scientist

The opportunity
Aura from Unity, a large-scale mobile platform, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Scientist to join our dynamic AI team. The ideal candidate blends a strong foundation in machine learning, statistics, and software engineering with a passion for modern, AI-accelerated development. You will be responsible for leading the research, design, and end-to-end development of cutting-edge machine learning systems at scale.

What you'll be doing

• Innovate at Scale: Design and deploy advanced ML solutions by leveraging our vast, large-scale datasets.
• Build & Scale: Develop online, scalable models and tools using machine learning, deep learning, NLP, and modern LLM frameworks.
• End-to-End Ownership: Drive projects through their entire lifecycle—from translating complex business questions into technical strategies, all the way to robust production deployment.
• Production Excellence: Champion high engineering standards by building, monitoring, and optimizing resilient production workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely alongside data scientists, ML engineers, product managers, analysts, and developers to solve complex, multi-faceted problems.

What we're looking for

• Education: MSc or PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related engineering field.
• Experience: 4+ years of proven experience as a Data Scientist solving complex business problems with state-of-the-art algorithms.
• Deep Learning: Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras).
• Engineering & Production: High-level software engineering expertise, with a strong track record of deploying, maintaining, and scaling models in rigorous production environments.
• Strong analytical thinking: Take a vague business question, translate it into a testable hypothesis, build the infrastructure to run an experiment, and draw rigorous conclusions from the results.
• Massive Scale: Experience working with billions of records and big-data frameworks (e.g., Spark, Ray, Dask, Airflow).
• Domain Expertise: Proven experience building and optimizing applied recommendation systems.
• AI development: Fluency with modern AI coding tools and practices (e.g. Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot) and an eagerness to integrate them into your daily workflow
• Leadership & Soft Skills: Demonstrated experience leading machine learning projects. You are a highly analytical team player capable of handling multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.

You might also have

• LLM & Agentic Frameworks: Experience building applications with modern AI tools and frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LangGraph).
• AI Observability: Hands-on experience with LLM observability, evaluation, and tracing frameworks (e.g., Langfuse).
• MLOps & Infra: Experience working with MLOps tools (e.g., MLflow, Kubeflow, Weights & Biases, SageMaker) and feature stores (e.g., Feast, Tecton).

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This range reflects the anticipated base salary for this position. Beyond base salary, this role may be eligible for equity awards and participation in our company incentive plans (such as annual discretionary bonuses or sales commissions). The final offer amount will depend on several factors, including geographic location and the candidate’s relevant experience, professional background, and skill set.

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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