Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Job ID: 10113084

Location: San Francisco, California, United States / Santa Monica, California, United States / New York, New York, United States / Seattle, Washington, United States

Business: Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

Date posted: 2?. 11, 2025

Job Summary:

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future.

The Commerce, Growth, & Identity (CGI) team is dedicated to three business-critical areas at Disney that will help transform its media business. They create seamless user experiences for consumers who can choose from a wide range of subscription plans, enabling more choice and flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Work with a distributed team of engineers across multiple organizations, building software collaboratively.
• Work and influence on all parts of the ML stack, from analyzing commerce data to running controlled experiments, building models, writing data pipelines, and implementing updates.
• Help the various software teams adopt AI tools to improve productivity.
• Work with product management to help translate business requirements into technical solutions and drive the delivery of key projects.
• Represent Disney streaming in various internal and external conferences and mentor Senior engineers.
• Champion cross-team projects.
• Coach and mentor other specialists on the team to ensure that all software utilizes industry best practices.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ years of related experience in applied Machine Learning. Strong programming skills in object-oriented languages (Scala / Python / Java/ C++ or equivalent).
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in CS/ML or related field.
• Industry experience building end-to-end Machine Learning infrastructure and/or building and productionizing Machine Learning models.
• Exposure to architectural patterns of large, high-scale software applications.
• Experience with test-driven development and familiar with A/B testing.
• An ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
• Strong communication skills and a desire to share your knowledge with team members.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience directly managing and mentoring a team.

The hiring range for this position in Los Angeles is $202,900 to $272,100 per year, in San Francisco is $222,200 to $297,900 per year, and in New York or Seattle is $212,600 to $285,100 per year.

About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise.

This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer.