The Walt Disney Company

Lead Software Engineer – AI Infrastructure, Tooling

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Santa MonicaCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $155,700 - $208,700 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Develop and maintain internal tools, frameworks, and services that empower SDET teams to improve efficiency and scalability in quality engineering.
  • Drive innovation in developer experience by creating reusable libraries, APIs, and automation services integrated into CI/CD workflows.
  • Lead the end-to-end development and integration of AI/ML models and automation tools, ensuring they are production-ready, scalable, and maintainable.
  • Architect, design, and implement software platforms and frameworks that use AI/ML to enable automation, monitoring, and productivity tools for SDET and product engineering teams.
  • Providing strategic input, defining and contributing towards Objectives and Key Results, and partnering within and across the organization to achieve them.
  • Leading and mentoring junior developers, providing meaningful insight, code reviews and technical direction across the team.
  • Write and review high-quality, maintainable code for frameworks, infrastructure, and proof-of-concept solutions, setting engineering standards for the team.
  • Leading communication for projects and overall team status within and across the organization.
  • Keeping up with industry trends and new publicly available technologies, coming up with innovative ideas and solutions for complex technical problems.
  • Serving as an advanced resource for other engineers on the team, training and helping others to contribute meaningful and impactful features and capabilities.
  • Collaborate closely with Quality Engineering leadership to understand needs and deliver scalable tools and frameworks that enhance their capabilities.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and propose solutions that advance automation and developer experience.

Requirements

  • 7 years of relevant software development experience, including experience integrating AI/ML into software platforms for automation and developer productivity
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a closely related field or equivalent years of professional experience.
  • Progressive experience in a software development (SDET or S W E) occupation, including developing unit tests and/or automated testing of front end and backend services
  • Experience building developer productivity tools or automation frameworks
  • Proficient in object-oriented design and expertise with Python, Java and/or Node/JavaScript
  • Experience leading teams of software engineers and/or SDETs
  • Experience working with high-performing teams using Agile and Lean methodologies
  • Experience in modern design patterns and techniques, deriving and gathering quality KPI’s to give insight into product’s health and progress.
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI/ML integrationautomation frameworksobject-oriented designPythonJavaNode.jsunit testingautomated testingCI/CD workflowsmodern design patterns
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationstrategic inputinnovationproblem-solvingcode reviewstechnical directionteam status reporting
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Scienceequivalent professional experience