Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Job Summary:

Team’s Vision

The Machine Learning (ML) Engineering team at Disney drives and enables ML usage across several domains in heterogeneous language environments and at all stages of a project’s life cycle, including ad-hoc exploration, preparing training data, model development, and robust production deployment.  The team is invested in continual innovation of the ML infrastructure itself to carefully orchestrate a continuous cycle of learning, inference, and observation while also maintaining high system availability and reliability. We seek to find new ways to scale with our guest and partner base as well as the ever-growing need for ML and experiments.

Role

In this role you will partner with data science teams to onboard and productionize ML models on the platform, build tooling and services to simplify development and deployment of ML models at scale, and integration with the production ecosystem. You will need a strong machine learning background, solid software development skills, and passion for user-centric development. You will work on cross-functional products and push the envelope on data and ML focused solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop tools, services, SDKs to simplify development, deployment and productionization of ML models at scale
• Experience deploying, maintaining and evaluating production ML models at scale
• Familiarity with ML development lifecycle and frameworks (e.g. Triton, PyTorch, BentoML) 
• Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
• Work in an Agile environment that focuses on collaboration and teamwork

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field
• 5+ years of software engineer experience, with 3+ years of relevant ML experience
• Expertise with ML pipelines, algorithms, statistical methods
• Comfortable operating at all levels of the predictive stack and user behavior modeling including data collection, feature engineering, batch low-latency online serving

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with Python development ecosystem and technologies like Databricks, S3, Spark
• Experience with graph-based data workflows such as Apache Airflow, Meson
• Excellent communication and people engagement skills
• Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation
• Mentor colleagues on best practices and technical concepts of building large scale solutions

The hiring range for this position in San Francisco is $145,400.00 – $199,900.00 per year, in New York/Seattle is $139,040.00 – $191,200 .00 per year and Los Angeles is $132,700.00 – $182,500.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. 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.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise with the following business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, Disney Parks, and Experiences and Products. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.