Principal On-Device AI Engineer for Real-Time Game Inference
Unity
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Mountain View, CA · Posted November 3, 2026
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About the job
...Unity is seeking a Principal Engineer for On-Device AI Inference & Systems to advance multi-modal models (transformers and diffusion networks) running entirely within our game engine runtime. You will own the inference and integration stack end-to-end—from exporting...