The Walt Disney Company

Lead Machine Learning Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: GlendaleCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $171,600 - $241,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Lead the design and delivery of machine learning solutions across advertising use cases such as inventory forecasting, pricing, targeting, and efficient ad delivery
  • Apply modern machine learning techniques to solve complex, real-time advertising problems
  • Provide technical leadership for ML system architecture, modeling approaches, and production readiness within your domain
  • Design, build, and scale ML architectures that balance model quality, latency, throughput, reliability, and cost
  • Oversee the full ML lifecycle for owned systems, from experimentation through production deployment and iteration
  • Design and maintain feature pipelines and feature stores supporting both real-time inference and offline training
  • Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into clear technical plans and measurable outcomes
  • Interpret experimental results and guide data-informed decision-making
  • Ensure ML systems are observable, debuggable, and explainable in production
  • Establish and maintain monitoring for model performance, drift, bias, and system health
  • Champion engineering excellence through best practices in code quality, system design, testing, and operational reliability
  • Mentor and support engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and ongoing technical guidance

Requirements

  • Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
  • 7+ years of software engineering experience
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying machine learning systems in production
  • Strong knowledge of machine learning fundamentals, mathematics, and statistics
  • Experience operating ML systems in low-latency, high-throughput environments
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical partners
  • Solid foundations in algorithms, data structures, and numerical optimization
  • Proficiency in Python (primary), with experience in Java and SQL
  • Experience with ML frameworks and tooling such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Hugging Face
  • Experience with deep learning methodologies (e.g., sequence-based or representation learning models)
  • Experience building systems on cloud-native infrastructure and distributed platforms
Benefits
  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
  • Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningML system architecturemodeling approachesfeature pipelinesfeature storesreal-time inferencePythonJavaSQLdeep learning
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcommunicationcollaborationmentoringcode reviewsdesign discussionsdata-informed decision-makingengineering excellence
Certifications
Bachelor's in Computer Science