Lead ML Platform Architect – Personalization

Disney

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 211,000 - 296,000

Full time

33 hours ago

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Job summary

The Walt Disney Company seeks a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to define the architecture of the N&E ML Platform across Disney's News & Entertainment portfolio, spanning ABC News, ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, and Disney Studios. You will lead ML personalization, recommender systems, and platform infrastructure with executive collaboration.

You will mentor senior engineers, drive reliability and observability, and partner with cross‑org teams to align ML work with business

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, statistics, math, or comparable field of study or equivalent experience.
10+ years of experience building and operating ML engineering systems in production environments.
Deep expertise in data science, deep learning algorithms, and statistical methods.
Experience owning architecture across a significant platform or product domain.
Proven ability to drive quantifiable improvements in ML platform capabilities or recommendation system performance.
Experience designing and evolving backend microservices using REST.

Responsibilities

Define and own the end-to-end architecture of the N&E ML platform across ABC News, ABC Entertainment, National Geographic, Marvel, and Disney Studios.
Identify, scope, and prioritize ML workstreams across the N&E portfolio; surface risks to leadership.
Drive design and evolution of ML infrastructure: data pipelines, feature stores, training, and online serving.
Stay at the forefront of ML trends and champion adoption of new technologies.
Own production incident response and drive reliability programs.
Mentor senior engineers and foster ownership and learning.
Lead metrics-driven programs linking ML investments to guest experience and business outcomes.