ML Engineer

Paramount

Studio Domain ML Engineer at Paramount developing applied machine learning technologies for entertainment production environments. Ensuring new technologies meet professional production standards and usability.

Posted 5/17/2026full-timeRemote • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLead💰 $124,000 - $186,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Python

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensure systems align with real-world production workflows, tools, and operational constraints.
Define domain-specific acceptance criteria and quality standards for outputs.
Identify workflow mismatches early and guide teams toward solutions that fit existing production environments.
Validate prototypes and systems within realistic production scenarios, including edge cases and constraints.
Provide actionable feedback on usability, quality, and workflow integration.
Ensure outputs align with established domain standards, including formats, conventions, and downstream requirements.
Contribute directly to the development of new applied ML capabilities through validation scripts, data preparation workflows, evaluation datasets, prototype utilities, model behavior analysis, and integration tooling.
Partner with Applied ML Engineers to translate complex domain requirements into testable specifications, model behavior expectations, prototype workflows, and production-ready system behaviors.
Support evaluation design through representative examples, edge cases, and ground-truth data.
Work with the ML Behavior Systems Team to ensure systems meet defined evaluation and quality standards.
Validate that outputs meet professional expectations within the domain, beyond technical correctness.
Help interpret evaluation results in the context of real production use.
Ensure systems can be adopted within real production pipelines with minimal friction.
Validate compatibility with downstream tools, workflows, and operational environments.
Partner with Platform Integration teams to ensure outputs meet functional deployment requirements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience within a film, media, or entertainment production domain (e.g., production, post-production, animation, VFX, studio technology, or related functions).
Demonstrated ability to translate real-world workflows and quality expectations into structured requirements.
Working proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages sufficient to contribute to system development and validation.
Experience collaborating with technical teams on tools, systems, or pipeline development.
Ability to operate in dynamic, iterative environments with evolving requirements.

Benefits

Comp & perks

medical
dental
vision
401(k) plan
life insurance coverage
disability benefits
tuition assistance program
PTO

ATS Keywords

✓ Tailor your resume

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools

Pythonscripting languagesdata preparation workflowsvalidation scriptsmodel behavior analysisprototype utilitiesevaluation datasetsintegration toolingworkflow integrationquality standards

Soft Skills

actionable feedbackcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilityinterpretation of evaluation resultsguidancetranslating requirementsoperational understandingdynamic environment operation