Senior ML Engineer - Real-Time Ad Tech Platform

The Walt Disney Company (France); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 148,700 - 199,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office four days a week

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Ad Platforms team. You will design, implement, and test ML-based and rule-based ad serving logic in a high-throughput microservices environment, and improve observability with metrics, monitors, and alerts.

You’ll translate user stories into actionable frontend and backend tasks, own one or more domain areas, and work with AI tools in line with policy. On-call rotations apply.

Qualifications

• BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering or relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering, specifically ML experience.
• Proficiency with Java
• Proficient in large scale ML/DL platforms and processing tech stack.
• Experience in large scale machine learning using tools such as scikit-learn, Spark MLLib, pytorch
• Experience with LLM-based application development, using LLM-as-a-service providers such as AWS Bedrock, Azure Cognitive Services, or Google's Vertex AI
• Experience using frameworks such as LangGraph, Crew AI, and strands sdk for developing agents
• Experience with vector databases and retrieval-augmented generation
• Demonstrable analytical / problem-solving skills. Strong knowledge of and experience implementing AI/ML technologies and applying mathematical and statistical concepts.
• Great communication, collaboration skills, and a strong teamwork ethic with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and testing logic to serve ads effectively adhering to various business criteria either with rule based or ML based solutions in a high-throughput, low-latency microservices environment.
• Enhancing systems’ observability with proper metrics, monitors, and alerts.
• Reading and understanding product user stories, and then translating them into actionable tasks for both frontend and backend components.
• Taking ownership of one or more of the team's domain areas.
• Understanding and using automated tools (AI) while adhering to company policy.
• Available for On-Call rotations based on the team’s escalation policy and support schedule.

Skills

Java

ML/AI

Distributed systems

PyTorch

LLM development

LangGraph

Crew AI

vector databases

Spark MLLib

AWS

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

SpringBoot

DynamoDB

Redis

Kafka

Kinesis

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Vertex AI

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to join the Ad Platforms team. You will design, implement, and test ML-based and rule-based ad serving logic in a high-throughput microservices environment, and improve observability with metrics, monitors, and alerts.

You’ll translate user stories into actionable frontend and backend tasks, own one or more domain areas, and work with AI tools in line with policy. On-call rotations apply.