AI Product Builder: Forward-Deployed Engineer

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company; Burbank (CA); On-site; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Medical benefits

Incentive units

Job summary

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA or Burbank, CA is seeking an early-career AI product builder to ship AI-powered features end to end for real users. You will work with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance, Parks Operations, HR, Studios, and more, turning ideas into practical solutions using LLM APIs, prompt design, and RAG.

Join a small, hands-on team led by a manager, focusing on rapid iteration while upholding security and enterprise practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years shipping software products for real users, including at least 1 year shipping AI-powered features in production.
• Experience with prompt design, agents, RAG, LLM APIs, and evals.
• Daily or frequent use of AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools.
• Ability to read and reason about code, debug with teammates, and work with data using SQL, APIs, or basic transformations.
• Strong product and business judgment, with experience connecting features to user needs and business outcomes.
• Strong learning agility and comfort working with new tools and changing technology.
• Ability to communicate clearly with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship AI-powered features from problem definition through production.
• Work directly with stakeholders to understand business needs and gather feedback.
• Own the user experience, including workflows, interfaces, automation, and human-in-the-loop decisions.
• Use tools such as LLM APIs, prompt design, RAG, agents, and evaluation methods to solve problems effectively.
• Build within Disney's enterprise systems with appropriate security, monitoring, and operational practices.
• Test changes before launch using regression checks, golden sets, and other evaluation methods.
• Contribute reusable code, tools, and patterns when they can help future engagements.
• Partner with teammates through code reviews, debugging, and shared problem solving.
• Explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to business stakeholders.

Skills

AI development tools

Prompt design

LLM APIs

Code debugging

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

RAG tools

LLM tooling

Job description

Disney Cruise Line - The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA or Burbank, CA is seeking an early-career AI product builder to ship AI-powered features end to end for real users. You will work with stakeholders across Marketing, Finance, Parks Operations, HR, Studios, and more, turning ideas into practical solutions using LLM APIs, prompt design, and RAG.

Join a small, hands-on team led by a manager, focusing on rapid iteration while upholding security and enterprise practices.