2 days ago
Base Salary
$190k - $230k/yr
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with product owners, developers, and creatives to define AI-assisted agentic workflow strategy.
- Design and own architecture for AI-powered frameworks and automation across Studio pipelines and platforms.
- Define ingestion, processing, and routing architecture for metrics, logs, and traces.
- Integrate solutions with industry digital content creation tools and existing artist-facing toolsets.
- Prototype solutions for asset tagging, scene preparation, render queue management, shot setup, and versioning.
- Define technical standards, integration patterns, and reusable AI components for creative production.
- Evaluate AI frameworks, foundation models, and automation technologies.
- Write, test, deploy, maintain, and iterate on production-ready tools used in active show pipelines.
- Partner with platform, systems, and security teams to monitor model drift, latency, availability, and security.
- Create reference implementations, training materials, and documentation for engineers and artists.
- Drive adoption across technical and creative departments and report automation impact to Studio leadership.
- Identify new automation opportunities and promote continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years building production systems, including 2+ years building AI/ML systems for real 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.
- Experience designing automation for complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Ability to influence senior engineers without authority and serve as a technical mentor.
- Experience building durable frameworks, templates, training materials, or open-source artifacts.
- Excellent communication skills across artists, production management, and engineering teams.
- Passion for animation, storytelling, or creative production.
- 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 DCC software is preferred.
- Familiarity with USD, Autodesk Flow Production Tracking, and Jira is preferred.
- Experience measuring and reporting the productivity impact of engineering tooling investments is preferred.
- Awareness of current AI trends and emerging technologies is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid schedule requiring at least four days per week in the office, subject to change by the company.
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, discounts, and other perks.
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About NBC
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.