AI Architect for Studio Automation & Creative Ops

NBCUniversal; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 190.000 - 230.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid leave

Tuition reimbursement

Employee discounts

Zusammenfassung

DreamWorks Animation seeks a highly collaborative AI Architect to lead hands-on design and delivery of AI-powered, agentic architecture across production pipelines. You will partner with product owners, developers, and creatives to automate repetitive tasks while ensuring reliability and production readiness.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, model integration, and building reusable AI components, with a hybrid work schedule and NBCUniversal benefits.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years building production systems, with 2+ years building AI/ML systems for real workflows.
• Hands-on experience deploying enterprise software in AI, data, or integration environments.

Aufgaben

• Collaborate and advise on next-generation AI-assisted agentic workflows strategy alongside product owners, developers and creatives.
• Design and own the architecture for AI-powered frameworks and automation across the entire Studio pipeline and platforms.
• Define the end-to-end architecture for ingestion, processing, and routing of operational telemetry (metrics, logs, traces).
• Integrate solutions with popular industry DCC tools.
• Prototype solutions for high-friction tasks: asset tagging, scene prep, render queue management, shot setup, and versioning.
• Define technical standards and integration patterns for AI tooling across departments and shows.
• Evaluate and select AI frameworks, foundation models, and automation technologies for creative production and operational stability.
• Build and maintain a library of reusable AI components and automation patterns.
• Partner with platform, systems and security teams to monitor model drift, system latency, and system security.
• Write, test, and deploy production-ready tools that run reliably inside active show pipelines.
• Develop reference implementations that set the canonical pattern for future pipeline AI work.
• Partner with engineers and TDs to fold automation into existing artist-facing toolsets.
• Maintain and iterate on deployed tools based on artist feedback and production data.
• Drive adoption across both technical and creative departments so tools are understood, trusted, and used.
• Create lightweight training and documentation for artists and engineers.
• Establish metrics for automation impact and report results to studio leadership on a regular cadence.
• Champion a culture of continuous improvement and surface new automation opportunities as workflows evolve.

Kenntnisse

Containerization

Orchestration

Python

TypeScript

React

LangGraph

Spring AI

MCP

LLM integration

Automation design

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

DCC tools

Jobbeschreibung

DreamWorks Animation seeks a highly collaborative AI Architect to lead hands-on design and delivery of AI-powered, agentic architecture across production pipelines. You will partner with product owners, developers, and creatives to automate repetitive tasks while ensuring reliability and production readiness.

The role emphasizes architecture ownership, model integration, and building reusable AI components, with a hybrid work schedule and NBCUniversal benefits.