Hybrid Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure

Posted 3 months ago

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About the role

  • Lead ML engineer responsible for ML research, deployment, and infrastructure across Disney Entertainment & ESPN. Drive scalable learning, inference, monitoring, and cross-team ML adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Lead research, development, deployment, and optimization of ML applications across Disney Entertainment & ESPN
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Data, and Editorial
  • Design and develop infrastructure supporting the full cycle of machine learning, including workflow orchestration and management interfaces, data discovery tools, data quality and feature libraries
  • Drive infrastructure innovation for scalable learning, inference, and monitoring
  • Provide ML consultancy and mentorship and contribute to ML Lab mission enabling ML across heterogeneous environments
  • Conduct in-depth data exploration and analysis to support strategic initiatives and shape algorithmic roadmap
  • Drive data and ML-driven solutions for use cases such as recommendation systems, object detection, anomaly detection, RAGs and translations
  • Identify opportunities to improve business operations and develop solutions to lift business KPIs
  • Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers and work collaboratively with peers to achieve goals within deadlines

Requirements

  • BS in computer science, statistics, math or a related quantitative field
  • 7+ years of relevant SWE and MLEng experience
  • Expertise in data science, (deep) learning algorithms, or statistical methods
  • Comfortable operating at all levels of the predictive stack, including data collection, feature engineering, batch training and low-latency online serving
  • Experience designing and developing backend microservices for large-scale distributed systems using gRPC or REST
  • Experience with large-scale distributed data processing systems, cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, and container systems such as Docker or Kubernetes
  • Track record of building scalable systems, from design to full production
  • Understanding of statistical concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression analysis)
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • (Preferred) Familiarity with developing and deploying Spark and ML pipelines
  • (Preferred) Hands-on experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, HDFS, Airflow, Databricks, Kinesis, Kafka

Benefits

  • A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Other benefits dependent on the level and position offered

Job title

Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Infrastructure

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$175,800 - $235,700 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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