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DreamWorks Technology - Principal Engineer, AI

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5 days ago
Glendale, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$190k - $230k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product owners, developers, and creatives on AI-assisted agentic workflow strategy.
  • Design and own AI-powered frameworks and automation across Studio pipelines and platforms.
  • Define telemetry ingestion, processing, and routing architecture for metrics, logs, and traces.
  • Prototype and deploy tools for asset tagging, scene preparation, render queue management, shot setup, and versioning.
  • Integrate solutions with digital content creation tools and existing artist-facing toolsets.
  • Evaluate AI frameworks, foundation models, and automation technologies for creative production.
  • Build reusable AI components, automation patterns, and reference implementations.
  • Monitor model drift, latency, system security, and operational availability with platform, systems, and security teams.
  • Maintain deployed tools, gather artist feedback, and measure and report automation impact.
  • Drive adoption through training, documentation, communication, and identification of new automation opportunities.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of experience building production systems, including 2+ years building AI/ML systems for real-world workflows.
  • Hands-on experience deploying enterprise software in AI, data, or integration environments.
  • Expertise with containerization, orchestration, Python, TypeScript, React, LangGraph, Spring AI, and MCP.
  • Deep understanding of LLM model integration and tuning.
  • At least 2 years in a Principal, Staff, or Lead role responsible for AI or pipeline automation is preferred.
  • Strong understanding of animation production pipelines, departmental workflows, and digital content creation software is preferred.
  • Familiarity with USD, Autodesk Flow Production Tracking, and Jira is preferred.
  • Ability to influence senior engineers, create durable technical artifacts, communicate across technical and creative groups, and stay current with AI trends.
  • Passion for animation, storytelling, or creative production.

Benefits

  • Hybrid schedule requiring at least four days per week in the office.
  • Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, discounts, and other perks.
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About NBC

10,000+ employees

NBCUniversal is a global media and entertainment company that produces and distributes film, television, news, sports, and streaming content for consumer audiences and advertisers. Its portfolio includes NBC, Telemundo, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation, and Peacock, and it also operates Universal theme parks and consumer products licensing. Formed in 2004 and headquartered in New York City, it is a subsidiary of Comcast.

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