Production AI Engineer: Build & Deploy AI Apps

The Walt Disney Company; Glendale (CA); On-site; USD 119,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is engineering AI-powered software that spans backend services, APIs, data integrations, and user-facing experiences. This role demands building production-quality code and delivering end-to-end AI solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.

You will translate ambiguous business problems into technical designs, rapidly test prototypes with real users, and own user workflows with human-in-the-loop decisions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years designing, building, and shipping software applications for production users, including hands-on AI/LLM-powered apps.
• Strong software engineering foundation with ability to independently write, test, debug, and maintain production-quality code.
• Experience with modern AI development tools and methods, such as prompt design, agents, RAG, LLM APIs, and evals.
• Daily or frequent use of AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar tools.
• 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

• Design, build, test, deploy, and operate production AI applications end-to-end, including backend services, APIs, data integrations, retrieval systems, model interactions, agent workflows, and user-facing experiences.
• Work directly with stakeholders to translate ambiguous business problems into technical solutions and rapidly test prototypes with real users.
• 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.
• Write clean, maintainable, production-quality code and participate actively in architecture discussions, code reviews, testing, debugging, and technical design.
• Partner with teammates through code reviews, debugging, and shared problem solving.
• Explain technical decisions and tradeoffs clearly to business stakeholders.

Skills

AI/LLM-powered applications

Production software development

Stakeholder communication

Learning agility

Clear communication with senior StakeH

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Cursor

Claude Code

LLM APIs

RAG

Eval methods

Job description

The Walt Disney Company in Glendale, CA is engineering AI-powered software that spans backend services, APIs, data integrations, and user-facing experiences. This role demands building production-quality code and delivering end-to-end AI solutions in collaboration with stakeholders.

You will translate ambiguous business problems into technical designs, rapidly test prototypes with real users, and own user workflows with human-in-the-loop decisions.