Sr Machine Learning Engineer

$136,100 - $182,400/Yr

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology - Santa Monica, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

Santa Monica, CA

About the position

The Search Machine Learning (ML) team at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology is responsible for powering the ML aspects of search engines for Disney+ and Hulu platforms. This role involves maintaining and iterating on training jobs and inference endpoints for ML micro-services, collaborating closely with data engineering and data science leads to enhance the search experience for users. The position emphasizes innovation, teamwork, and the application of advanced ML techniques to improve content retrieval and engagement.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop batch training jobs (both on CPU and GPU) and inference endpoints.
• Ensure healthy training configurations for TensorFlow/PyTorch training jobs and serving layers (through both gRPC and REST).
• Collaborate on multi-faceted projects with engineers from diverse backgrounds and skills across teams.
• Work in an Agile environment that focuses on collaboration and teamwork.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software experience, with 3+ years of relevant ML and software experience.
• Knowledge of the Python/Java data ecosystem.
• Knowledge of either PyTorch or TensorFlow frameworks.
• Experience deploying and running services in AWS.
• Expertise with ML pipelines, algorithms, and statistical methods.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with ML platforms, such as AWS SageMaker, Google Vertex AI, or any other ML platform.
• Experience in adopting open source ML packages into the MLOps lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and people engagement skills, and mentor colleagues on best practices and technical concepts of building large scale solutions.

Benefits

• Medical, financial, and other benefits depending on the level and position offered.
• Bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package.