The Walt Disney Company

Senior Machine Learning Engineer – Personalization

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityCaliforniaNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $148,700 - $199,400 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Utilize cutting edge machine learning methods to develop algorithms for personalization, recommendation, and other predictive systems; maintain algorithms deployed to production and be the point person in explaining methodologies to technical and non-technical teams
  • Develop and maintain ETL pipelines using orchestration tools such as Airflow and Jenkins; deploy scalable streaming and batch data pipelines to support petabyte scale datasets
  • Maintain existing and establish new algorithm development, testing, and deployment standards
  • Collaborate with product and business stakeholders: Identify and define new personalization opportunities and work with other data teams to improve how we do data collection, experimentation and analysis

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience developing machine learning models, performing large-scale data analysis, and/or data engineering experience
  • 5+ years writing production-level, scalable code (Python, SQL)
  • 3+ years of experience developing algorithms for deployment to production systems
  • In-depth understanding of modern machine learning (e.g. deep learning methods), models, and their mathematical underpinnings
  • Experience deploying and maintaining pipelines and in engineering big-data solutions using technologies like Databricks, S3, and Spark
  • Ability to gauge the complexity of machine learning problems and a willingness to execute simple approaches for quick, effective solutions as appropriate
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • MS or PhD in statistics, math, computer science, or related quantitative field (preferred)
  • Production experience with developing content recommendation algorithms at scale (preferred)
  • Experience building and deploying full stack ML pipelines: data extraction, data mining, model training, feature development, testing, and deployment (preferred)
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
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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Certifications
MS in statisticsMS in mathMS in computer sciencePhD in statisticsPhD in mathPhD in computer science