Lead Machine Learning Engineer - News
The Walt Disney Company4 months ago
Glendale, CA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$142k - $199k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own complex technical initiatives end-to-end, from technical design through production deployment and operational excellence.
- Design and develop infrastructure for machine learning data pipelines, workflow orchestration, data discovery and quality tools, feature libraries, training, inference, and monitoring.
- Develop data- and ML-driven solutions including recommendation systems, object detection, autogenerated tagging, and RAGs.
- Partner with product, editorial, data, and engineering stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical solutions.
- Prioritize technical initiatives, identify and mitigate risks, and deliver high-impact outcomes.
- Champion code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and incident response practices.
- Mentor and coach engineers and promote technical documentation and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, statistics, math, or a comparable field, and/or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience developing and deploying machine learning systems in production.
- Expertise in data science, deep learning algorithms, or statistical methods applied to real-world engineering problems.
- Experience across data collection, data analysis, feature engineering, batch training, and low-latency online serving.
- Experience designing backend microservices for large-scale distributed systems using REST.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS and its Step Functions, Lambda, Glue, SQS, SNS, and Personalize services.
- Familiarity with developing and deploying Spark and ML pipelines.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Kinesis, and Kafka.
- Proven leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments and strong communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Full-time employment with medical, financial, and other benefits.
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.
- Position is based in Glendale, California, with an alternate New York, New York location.
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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.