The Walt Disney Company

Lead AI/Machine Learning Engineer – Decision Science

The Walt Disney Company

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Lake Buena Vista • California, Florida • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $171,600 - $230,100 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerLinuxPythonRaySpark

About the role

  • Lead the design, construction and maintenance of optimized, efficient and reliable decision science pipelines, processes, and tools around AI/ML
  • Provide technical leadership through architectural direction, design reviews, and thoughtful decision-making
  • Mentor colleagues on building configurable, modular, and scalable solutions
  • Present designs and benefits of created tools to support adoption and advancement of reusable AI/ML components
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, data scientists, client teams, vendors, and other partners to define and generate systems requirements and architectural documents
  • Proactively troubleshoot and resolve complex CI/CD or integration issues
  • Establish and enforce engineering best practices and operational standards

Requirements

  • 7+ years of demonstrated ability to drive complex technical projects from ideation through delivery, balancing technical excellence with business needs
  • Ability to provide peer leadership to junior colleagues, and clearly explain, document, and present coding designs to audiences that will use / implement the solution
  • Must exhibit proficiency in Python
  • Experience and familiarity with AI/ML (e.g., LLMs, Knowledge Graphs, GenAI)
  • Knowledge of multiple database and distributed computing architectures/technologies (e.g., Ray, SPARK, Dask)
  • Proficiency with modern development tooling, including Git, CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab), containerization (e.g., Docker), and cloud platforms such as AWS
  • Strong understanding of software development methodologies and tools including Agile, Git, CICD, MLOps/DevOps, Docker, SSH, Linux
  • Experience developing applications using Streamlit or RShiny frameworks
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

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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

Hard skills
PythonAI/MLLLMsKnowledge GraphsGenAIRaySPARKDaskStreamlitRShiny
Soft skills
technical leadershipmentoringcollaborationtroubleshootingdecision-makingcommunicationpresentation skillsdocumentationpeer leadershipproblem-solving
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