Senior Machine Learning Developer, Advertiser Growth
Location
Canada
Posted
26 days ago
Salary
$125.6K - $169.5K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Machine Learning Developer, Advertiser Growth
Unity
• 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.
Job Requirements
- Advanced degree in computer science or relevant engineering-related field or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of software engineering experience, including 1+ year 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.
Benefits
- 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
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