Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The opportunity

At Unity were shaping the future of real-time 3D development by enabling creators to harness intelligent autonomous systems. Our next-generation agentic AI - goal-directed adaptive and capable of reasoning and planning in dynamic environments - is transforming how games and simulations come to life.

Were looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to lead the development of these foundational AI systems within the Unity engine empowering creators to build smarter more responsive in-game agents and simulations. Your work will directly drive innovation allowing developers and designers to integrate sophisticated AI behavior seamlessly into their worlds.

This role is perfect for someone passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI multi-agent systems reinforcement learning and intelligent decision-making in complex real-time environments.

What youll be doing

• Design implement and scale AI agents that assist in generating game code and executing goal-directed behaviors.
• Define orchestration logic for single- and multi-agent systems
• Develop reusable agentic frameworks - planning modules memory systems or policy adaptation layers - for creator extensibility.
• Lead high-impact initiatives including hierarchical reinforcement learning for scalable behaviors AI planning and goal inference frameworks for NPCs and simulations and agent memory and world modeling systems for persistent believable behavior.
• Collaborate across internal and external teams to unlock innovative use cases in gaming simulation and interactive storytelling.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and roadmap for Unitys agentic AI offerings ensuring modularity usability and performance across platforms.
• Establish and champion best practices for model quality simulation-based evaluation and ML / AI safety within real-time systems.

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Additional information

Life at Unity

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support employees well-being and work-life balance. You can read more about them on our career page.

Unity NYSE : U is the leading platform to create and grow games and interactive experiences. Creators ranging from game developers to artists architects automotive designers infrastructure experts filmmakers and more use Unity to bring their imaginations to life across multiple platforms from mobile PC and console to spatial computing.

As of the third quarter of 2024 more than 70% of the top 1000 mobile games were made with Unity and in 2024 Made with Unity applications had an average of 3.7 billion downloads per month. For more information please visit Unity.

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Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1