Description
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.
The News & Entertainment (N&E) Machine Learning team is responsible for building robust data pipelines and advanced machine learning platforms that deliver personalized experiences to users across Disney's News & Entertainment portfolio including ABC News, ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, and Disney Studios.
As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will define and own the technical architecture and strategic direction of the N&E ML Platform across a large, complex problem space spanning Disney's News & Entertainment portfolio. You will drive step-function improvements in personalization, recommendation systems, and ML infrastructure - not just at the feature level, but across entire product and platform domains.
Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
- Architecture Ownership: Define and own the end-to-end architecture of the N&E ML platform across a large problem space spanning ABC News, ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, and Disney Studios.
- Strategic Technical Leadership: Identify, scope, and prioritize the most impactful and time-sensitive ML workstreams across the N&E portfolio.
- ML Platform & Infrastructure: Drive the design and evolution of infrastructure supporting the full ML lifecycle across diverse content types and brands.
- Innovation & Industry Awareness: Stay at the forefront of industry trends in ML, AI, and data engineering.
- Incident & Reliability Ownership: Own and speak to production incidents during weekly meetings with leadership.
- Cross-Org Engagement: Actively participate in and contribute to the broader Machine Learning community across Disney Entertainment & ESPN.
- Business & Objectives Alignment: Serve as a thought leader who deeply understands the business objectives and problems across the N&E portfolio.
- Mentorship & Culture: Mentor and elevate senior engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, technical rigor, and continuous learning.
The hiring range for this position in Glendale, CA is $210,500.00 - $282,300.00 per year and in New York, NY is $220,600.00 - $295,900.00 per year.