Senior Machine Learning Engineer, AI Authoring

Overview

The opportunity At Unity, we’re 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.

We’re looking for a Staff 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 you'll 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 Unity’s 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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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 1,000 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.

Equal opportunity and privacy

Unity is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment and celebrate our employees across age, race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law. If you have a disability that requires accommodations to ensure a comfortable interview experience, please fill out this form to let us know.

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Salary : $192,600 — $288,800 USD. Gross pay salary ranges may differ based on location, experience, and other factors.

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