The Walt Disney Company

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: GlendaleCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $141,900 - $199,400 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Apply modern machine learning techniques to advertising use cases such as inventory forecasting, pricing, targeting, and efficient ad delivery
  • Design, implement, and iterate on ML solutions from experimentation through production deployment and ongoing optimization
  • Build and scale ML architectures that balance model quality, latency, throughput, reliability, and cost
  • Design and maintain feature pipelines and feature stores supporting both real-time inference and offline training
  • Own major components of the model lifecycle, including experimentation, validation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration
  • Analyze experimental results and partner with product and engineering stakeholders to support data-informed decisions
  • Ensure models are observable, debuggable, and explainable in production environments
  • Implement monitoring for model performance, drift, bias, and overall system health
  • Contribute to engineering excellence through high-quality code, sound system design, and operational best practices
  • Provide technical guidance through code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer science or related field of study
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience
  • Minimum 3 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 modern ML frameworks and tooling such as TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Hugging Face
  • Experience with one or more of the following: Deep learning methodologies, Transformer architectures, Multimodal embedding techniques, Large language models, Retrieval-augmented generation architectures
  • Experience building systems on cloud-native infrastructure and distributed platforms.
  • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, data-driven, and collaborative environment.
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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
machine learningPythonJavaSQLTensorFlowPyTorchHugging Facealgorithmsdata structuresnumerical optimization
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationtechnical guidanceknowledge sharing
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science