GenAI Software Engineer II - Enterprise AI Platforms

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale, Seattle (CA, WA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Seattle, WA and Glendale, CA is seeking a Software Engineer II (GenAI) to help build enterprise GenAI applications and a conversational AI platform. You will work with Python, retrieval and grounding workflows, prompt design, and backend integration in production environments.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software development, strong Python skills, and experience with GenAI, LLMOps, and cloud services. This role offers growth in a leading media tech organization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Hands on GenAI applications or conversational AI experience.
• Familiarity with retrieval-based GenAI patterns, grounding, embeddings, vector search, and prompt engineering.
• Experience integrating APIs and backend services.
• Hands on exposure to MCP, tool calling, function calling, or agentic integration patterns.
• Exposure to cloud application development in Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Ability to read logs, investigate issues, and troubleshoot application behavior.
• Working knowledge of LLMOps concepts, including evaluation, observability, monitoring, deployment support, and production AI system reliability.
• Required use of AI assisted developer tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools to support development velocity, documentation, code review preparation, and technical problem solving.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Python based GenAI application components.
• Connect conversational AI workflows with backend services, web applications, and internal tools.
• Implement retrieval and grounding workflows that support source backed AI responses.
• Develop prompt logic, response formatting, structured outputs, and validation patterns.
• Assist with document ingestion, semantic chunking, metadata handling, and retrieval testing.
• Support agentic workflows involving tool use, function calling, API actions, and multi step reasoning.
• Learn and contribute to MCP style integration patterns for connecting AI systems to tools, data, and enterprise services.
• Support LLMOps practices, including observability, logging, monitoring, evaluation, latency tracking, cost tracking, and production troubleshooting.
• Help create and maintain validation datasets, regression tests, and response quality review workflows.
• Assist with deployment support, environment configuration, and operational documentation.
• Use AI developer tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools as part of the required engineering workflow to improve velocity, code understanding, testing, and documentation quality.
• Work with senior engineers to improve reliability, maintainability, and transparency of GenAI systems.

Skills

Python

GenAI

Retrieval

Prompt design

APIs

LLMOps

Debugging

AI tools

Cloud exposure

Data grounding

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

Azure OpenAI

MongoDB

Atlas Vector Search

Snowflake Cortex

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Seattle, WA and Glendale, CA is seeking a Software Engineer II (GenAI) to help build enterprise GenAI applications and a conversational AI platform. You will work with Python, retrieval and grounding workflows, prompt design, and backend integration in production environments.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in software development, strong Python skills, and experience with GenAI, LLMOps, and cloud services. This role offers growth in a leading media tech organization.