Lead Machine Learning Engineer
The Walt Disney Company7 days ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
Base Salary
$188k - $252k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ideate, develop, iterate on, and productionize personalization algorithms covering ranking, content and user understanding, candidate retrieval, and post-ranking.
- Apply modern AI and LLM techniques to improve recommendations, system evaluation, and model development workflows.
- Contribute applied-science expertise on recommendation approaches, evaluation methodology, data, features, and model objectives.
- Help drive the technical vision and innovation roadmap for personalization systems.
- Design and run rigorous offline and online experiments and improve recommendation evaluation systems and methodology.
- Build maintainable production ML systems with strong development, testing, and deployment standards, and support production issues.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Data partners while communicating methodologies to technical and non-technical audiences.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of experience developing machine learning models and deploying them to production systems.
- Strong background in applied ML science, end-to-end ML engineering, or a blend of both, with recommendation-systems modeling experience.
- Hands-on experience with AI and LLM techniques and a solid understanding of the modern AI landscape.
- Proficiency with PyTorch, TensorFlow, Databricks, Spark, and SQL.
- In-depth understanding of modern machine learning methods, models, and their mathematical foundations.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and a collaborative working style.
- Preferred qualifications include a PhD in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related quantitative field; machine learning or AI publications; production-scale content recommendation experience; reinforcement learning or sequential decision-making experience; and recommendation evaluation experience including offline evaluation and A/B experimentation.
- Required education is a BS or MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in San Francisco, California, with alternate listed locations in California and Washington.
- The compensation package may include bonus and/or long-term incentive units in addition to medical, financial, and other benefits.
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About The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is a diversified entertainment business that produces films and television, operates theme parks and resorts, and runs streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. It earns revenue from subscriptions and advertising, theatrical distribution, licensing and merchandise, and park admissions and experiences. Founded in 1923 and headquartered in Burbank, California, Disney owns brands such as Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios and serves audiences worldwide.