Staff Data Engineer - Immersive Audio/ML Pipelines (Hybrid)

Lucasfilm Ent Co Ltd, LLC Payroll Svc; California; Hybrid; USD 173,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Lucasfilm Ent Co Ltd, LLC Payroll Svc is hiring a Staff Data Engineer (Audio/ML) to build scalable data infrastructure for immersive audio AI research. This hybrid role in Nicasio, CA focuses on end-to-end pipelines for ingesting, preprocessing, transforming, and curating large-scale audio datasets to enable repeatable training and evaluation workflows.

You will apply advanced audio preprocessing for formats like Dolby Atmos and high-order ambisonics, collaborate with AI/ML researchers, and help

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Data Engineering/Science, Computer Science, Signal Processing, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in data engineering or data science, building pipelines for AI/ML.
• Strong Python proficiency with Pandas and NumPy; PyTorch data utilities experience.
• Hands-on audio processing with Librosa, FFmpeg, and SoX for complex formats.
• Experience with scalable pipeline tooling: GitLab, Apache Spark, Airflow, Luigi; containerized workflows with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Cloud platforms and storage/processing tools: AWS S3, Redshift, Google BigQuery.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable automated pipelines for ingestion, preprocessing, and transformation of large-scale audio datasets.
• Support efficient model training and retraining workflows for AI/ML models.
• Collaborate with AI/ML researchers to define data requirements and improve pipelines.
• Develop advanced preprocessing for immersive audio formats (Dolby Atmos, high-order ambisonics).
• Automate dataset preparation including cleaning, normalization, and augmentation for various model architectures.
• Integrate external datasets and APIs while ensuring compliant data usage.
• Monitor and optimize pipeline performance to handle complex data structures.
• Build dataset annotation and curation workflows and employ active learning methods.
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify trends, data quality, and gaps.

Skills

Python

Pandas

NumPy

PyTorch

Education

Master's Degree

PhD preferred

Tools

Librosa

FFmpeg

SoX

GitLab

Apache Spark

Airflow

Luigi

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS S3

Redshift

Google BigQuery

Tableau

Matplotlib

Job description

Lucasfilm Ent Co Ltd, LLC Payroll Svc is hiring a Staff Data Engineer (Audio/ML) to build scalable data infrastructure for immersive audio AI research. This hybrid role in Nicasio, CA focuses on end-to-end pipelines for ingesting, preprocessing, transforming, and curating large-scale audio datasets to enable repeatable training and evaluation workflows.

You will apply advanced audio preprocessing for formats like Dolby Atmos and high-order ambisonics, collaborate with AI/ML researchers, and help