Intern, Research Science

Job description

The opportunity This summer, you'll join one of Unity's most consequential teams — Vector AI — as a Research Science Intern. This organization drives how ads are delivered, measured, and optimized across Unity's advertising platform. You'll work alongside engineers, scientists, and product managers on high-impact problems at the intersection of machine learning, optimization, and causal inference — in large-scale, real-world systems where your research will have direct influence on campaign performance and advertiser outcomes. What you'll be doing: - Design and run experiments to improve ad performance, efficiency, and measurement quality. - Develop scalable models and algorithms targeting bidding strategy, auction dynamics, and user value estimation. - Partner with engineering to bring research ideas into production systems. - Analyze large datasets using advanced statistical and machine learning methods. - Communicate findings clearly to a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders. What we're looking for: - Academic background in machine learning, optimization, statistics, or econometrics. - Fluency working with large datasets using tools such as Python, R, SQL, or Spark....