Staff Machine Learning Engineer - Search
Warner Bros. DiscoveryBase Salary
$193k - $358k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of large-scale model-driven search algorithms covering retrieval, ranking, and query understanding.
- Define and evolve the technical strategy for search while balancing relevance, latency, and scalability.
- Drive end-to-end ML systems, including data pipelines, feature engineering, model training, experimentation, and serving.
- Partner with product, data, and infrastructure teams to execute the search roadmap and improve user experience.
- Mentor engineers and data scientists and improve algorithm development, system design, ML, and engineering practices.
- Identify and drive high-impact opportunities across search and personalization.
- Promote experimentation, data-driven innovation, and customer-focused engineering practices.
Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience, with 4+ years of technical lead experience preferred.
- Deep expertise in search or ranking algorithms, including retrieval, learning-to-rank, semantic search, query understanding, or entity recognition.
- Strong experience building large-scale ML systems in production.
- Ability to lead technical direction and influence across teams.
- Experience with online experimentation and metrics-driven development.
- Strong programming skills in Python; Java or Go experience is a plus.
- Experience with distributed systems and cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Solid understanding of SQL, data pipelines, and feature stores.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Nice-to-have experience includes recommender systems, personalization, NLP techniques, vector search or approximate nearest neighbor systems, and streaming, marketplace, or content discovery platforms.
Benefits
- Role locations are Seattle, the San Francisco Bay Area, or New York.
- Benefits include health insurance, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, retirement savings, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.
- Additional rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards.
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About Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the world’s most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines WarnerMedia’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discovery’s leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses. ****Please be aware of recruitment scams by individuals posing as employers and encouraging candidates to apply for, interview and/or accept nonexistent job opportunities as a means to solicit personal information or money. The online scammers have become much more sophisticated in their attempts to lure victims. Employment opportunities and job offers at Warner Bros. Discovery will always come from our Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. WBD does not extend job offers via email or on any other messaging tools to individuals to whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @wbd.com. A valid link for employment with Warner Bros. Discovery can be found at https://careers.wbd.com/global/en. If you believe you have been contacted by a scammer and may be the victim of fraud or identity theft, you should report details to the police where you live. You can also report job scams to the FTC. Learn more at https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/job-scams. *****