Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer

工作 ID 10122713 地點西雅圖, 华盛顿州, 美國 / 圣莫尼卡, 加利福尼亚州, 美國 / 旧金山, 加利福尼亚州, 美國 / 纽约, 纽约州, 美國 / 洛杉磯, 加利福尼亚州, 美國 有意工作的公司 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology 日期已公佈 Jun. 27, 2025

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工作概要:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. 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.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Job Summary:

We are hiring a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer to shape the future of personalization and content recommendations across Disney+, Hulu, ABC, and ESPN. As one of the most senior technical leaders in our organization, you will set the direction for machine learning innovation at scale—guiding both long-term vision and near-term execution for products that impact hundreds of millions of users. This is a strategic individual contributor role with broad technical scope and organizational influence. You will define architectural standards for personalization systems, lead cross-functional initiatives spanning multiple business units, and drive the development of novel algorithms that deliver measurable user and business value. You will partner with executive leadership across Engineering, Product, and Data to align personalization strategies with company-wide priorities. In addition to solving high-impact technical challenges, you will serve as a thought leader and mentor—elevating the work of other senior engineers and helping build a culture of technical excellence and innovation across the organization.

Responsibilities:

Define and drive the long-term technical vision for personalization and recommendation systems across Disney+, Hulu, ABC, and ESPN—ensuring alignment with overarching product and business strategies.
Lead the development of foundational machine learning architectures and algorithms, enabling scalable, real-time, and highly personalized user experiences for hundreds of millions of users.
Serve as a cross-functional thought leader, partnering with senior executives in Product, Engineering, Data, and Design to influence company-wide personalization strategy and investment.
Identify and drive high-impact initiatives that advance the state-of-the-art in machine learning, guiding efforts from concept through deployment with measurable business outcomes.
Mentor and elevate technical leaders across teams, fostering a culture of innovation, rigor, and excellence in machine learning engineering.
Set standards for experimentation, model evaluation, and algorithm fairness; establish frameworks and tools to accelerate development and promote reproducibility.
Represent Disney Streaming’s personalization efforts in strategic forums, internal councils, and external technical communities (e.g., conferences, publications, industry panels).

Basic Qualifications:

Track recordings of research & publications in recommendation system domain with deep neural net algorithms.
Strong proficiency in at least one of the following deep learning frameworks, tensorflow, pytorch.
Experiences building and deploying full stack ML pipelines: data extraction, data mining, model training, feature development, testing, and deployment.
Track record from design to full production of effective recommendation systems.
Experience with cloud services in a production environment (particularly AWS).
Understanding of statistical concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression analysis).
Ability to articulate the usage and behavior of models and algorithms to both technical and non-technical audiences.
12+ years of relevant experience

Preferred Qualifications:

Master’s or PhD in statistics, math, computer science, or related quantitative field.
Production experience with developing content recommendation algorithms at scale and familiar with metadata management, data lineage, and principles of data governance.
Deep understanding in personalization challenges in homepage experience and proven records of developing effective solutions.

Experience with:

12+ years of experience in developing highly scalable machine learning products
12+ years writing production-level, scalable Python codes

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience

The hiring range for this position in Seattle, WA & New York, NY is $234,400 to $314,300 per year, in San Francisco, CA is $245,100 to $328,600 per year and in Los Angeles/Santa Monica, CA is $223,700 to $300,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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關於Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

在Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology，我們結合想像力與創新，以重新想像人們體驗和參與世上最受歡迎故事和產品的方式。我們的工作內容廣泛，且精深細密。我們創造令人驚豔的體驗、改變媒體的未來，並打造產品和平台，讓世界各地的人們都能與自己喜愛的故事和體育活動緊密相連。

Disney結合世界級技術與獨特創意，因而與眾不同。這是我們過去、現在和未來的核心。我們是故事敍述者和創新者。創作者和創建者。表演者和工程師。

關於 The Walt Disney Company:

Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司，是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業，其業務主要涉及三個範疇：Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初，只是一間卡通工作室，至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚，並昂然堅守傳承，繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落，深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務，僱員及演藝人員攜手協力，創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。

這個職位隸屬於 Disney Streaming Technology LLC，其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology。

Disney Streaming Technology LLC 是提供平等就業機會的僱主。求職者都會獲得聘僱考量的機會，不分種族、宗教、膚色、生理性別、性傾向、社會性別、性別認同、性別表達、原國籍、血統、年齡、婚姻狀態、軍人或退伍軍人身份、醫療狀況、遺傳資訊或殘疾狀況、或者聯邦、州級或地方法律所禁止的其他任何基本特徵。Disney 提倡讓所有人的想法和決策都有助我們發展、創新、創造最好故事的商業環境，並與瞬息萬變的世界息息相關。

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