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Senior Data Scientist, Privacy Performance

The opportunity

The Unity Ads team builds advertising, other personalized content delivery solutions, and technologies in hundreds of thousands of apps. Our Monetization platform processes TBs of data and delivers relevant content to hundreds of millions of users every day. We are investing heavily in deep learning and deep reinforcement learning on multiple fronts. In Helsinki, we develop groundbreaking machine learning-centric products that provide millions of predictions each second to optimize the efficiency and profitability of user acquisition advertising campaigns.

However, in recent years, the user acquisition market sees a trend for creating privacy-focused solutions. Game developers find themselves in a complicated situation where their performance is restricted by user privacy-centric frameworks, such as SkAdNetwork provided by Apple or Android Privacy Sandbox presented by Google.

We are now looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join a team that produces one of the key components in the Acquire, Unity Ads. You will have an opportunity to develop ML models that could work making sure that the developers and gamers have the best advertisement experience in the privacy-trending world. We expect you to actively supply new insights and drive execution end-to-end.

What you’ll be doing

• Drive Unity’s user acquisition product from the machine learning point of view in close collaboration with other data scientists, product managers, and engineers
• Build brand-new privacy-focused machine learning methods to redefine user acquisition advertisement for mobile gaming
• Implement and drive the development of deep learning and online personalized targeting solutions with a tech stack of Python/Spark/Tensorflow/Keras/Pytorch
• Work with machine learning-based real-time online decision-making systems on a large scale
• Convey ideas and guide execution to implement high-quality machine learning-based products

What we’re looking for

• Concrete understanding and practical experience in machine learning concepts and programming
• Experience with deep learning frameworks, e.g. TensorFlow or PyTorch
• Experience with implementing various data and machine learning-based online decision-making systems
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to establish relationships across the company

You might also have

• Experience with large-scale data/distributed systems
• Knowledge of working with cloud computing is an advantage
• Experience working with the federated learning/differential privacy
• Familiarity with SkAdNetwork or Android Privacy Sandbox
• Background in mobile advertisement, gaming, or online trading
• Education in machine learning, math, physics, computer science, or equivalent

Life at Unity

Unity (NYSE: U) is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Creators, ranging from game developers to artists, architects, automotive designers, filmmakers, and others, use Unity to make their imaginations come to life. Unity is the foundation upon which the world’s most powerful digital content is created. Specifically, Unity’s platform provides a comprehensive set of software solutions to make, run and monetize interactive, real-time 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles, and augmented and virtual reality devices.

In the fourth quarter of 2021, Unity had, on average, 3.9 billion monthly active end users who consumed content built or operated with its solutions. The applications developed by these creators were downloaded, on average, five billion times per month in 2021. For more information, please visit www.unity.com.

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