Drimva

Unity

Senior Software Engineer, AI Authoring

$166K–$273K

Mountain View, CA, USA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 5, 2026

About the job

Build and operate backend platforms for Unity AI, advancing agentic development, observability, automated diagnosis, AI evaluation, and cost-efficient inference.

What you'll do

  • Develop agentic coding, testing, troubleshooting, and operational automation; make telemetry interpretable and automate production diagnosis.
  • Own and improve infrastructure for continuous, efficient evaluation of AI-generated outputs, in partnership with the Quality Engineering Lead.
  • Shape technical strategy and architecture for Unity AI and backend platforms; explore AI applications for gaming LiveOps and optimize agent economics.

What they ask for

  • Current, hands-on daily use of AI and agent tooling in engineering work.
  • Experience independently solving undefined problems and shipping complex, user-facing software products at scale.
  • Depth in observability, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and debugging; experience automating operational judgment or reducing detection-to-resolution effort.
  • Hands-on Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform experience; backend service development including API design, and familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code environments.

Nice to have

  • Experience building AI evaluation infrastructure or optimizing agent inference and token costs, model routing, context and memory, or state recovery.
  • Background in games, live-service operations, or player analytics.

Pay

$210,300 - $273,400 USD base salary (Zone A); $187,200 - $243,300 USD base salary (Zone B); $165,600 - $215,200 USD base salary (Zone C)

Tools

Grafana, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code

AI focus

The role builds AI authoring and agentic development capabilities, automated observability and diagnosis, AI output evaluation infrastructure, AI applications for gaming LiveOps, and cost-efficient agent systems.

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First seen Oct 28, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)