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Candidate-se agora mesmo! Candidatar-se depois Job ID 10128591 Local Nova Iorque, Nova Iorque, Estados Unidos / Santa Mônica, Califórnia, Estados Unidos / Bristol, Coneticute, Estados Unidos / Burbank, Califórnia, Estados Unidos / Glendale, Califórnia, Estados Unidos / São Francisco, Califórnia, Estados Unidos / Seattle, Washington, Estados Unidos Empresa Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology Data da publicação 05/09/2025

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Overview:

Technology is at the heart of Disney’s past, present, and future. Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.

The team marries technology with creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders. Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of people around the world.

Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product Technology:

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. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

  • Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.

  • Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.

  • Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Job Summary:

As a core contributor within our Machine Learning (ML) organization, you will lead the research, development, deployment, and optimization of ML applications, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Data, and Editorial. Your work will:

directly support strategic initiatives to help shape the roadmap for algorithmic innovation while ensuring that solutions are scalable, impactful, and aligned with stakeholder needs.

In addition to execution, you will contribute to the ML-Lab team’s broader mission: enabling the use of machine learning across heterogeneous environments and at every stage of a project’s lifecycle—from ad-hoc exploration to robust production deployment. This includes partnering with engineering and service teams to:

  • Drive infrastructure innovation for scalable learning, inference, and monitoring

  • Provide ML consultancy and mentorship

  • Conduct in-depth data exploration and analysis

Responsibilities:

  • Drive data and ML driven solutions for diverse engineering use cases such as recommendation systems, object detection, anomaly detection, RAGs and translations

  • Architect and build end to end ML models to drive data driven decisions

  • Identify impactful opportunities to improve our business operations and develop practical solutions and plans to lift our business KPI’s

  • Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers and work collaboratively with peers to achieve goals within deadlines

Basic Qualifications:

  • BS in computer science, statistics, math or a related quantitative field + 7 years of relevant SWE and MLEng experience

  • Expertise in data science, (deep) learning algorithms, or statistical methods to solve real-world engineering problems

  • Comfortable operating at all levels of the predictive stack, including data collection, feature engineering, batch training and low-latency online serving

  • Experience with large-scale distributed data processing systems, cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP, and container systems such as Docker or Kubernetes

  • Track record of building scalable ML applications, from design to full production

  • Understanding of statistical concepts (e.g., hypothesis testing, regression analysis)

  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Hands-on experience building models for video processing (such as clipping, cropping, understanding, search, …)

  • Familiarity with developing and deploying Spark and ML pipelines

  • Hands on experience with big data technologies such as Hadoop, HDFS, Airflow, Databricks, Kinesis, Kafka

  • Drive and maintain a culture of quality, innovation and experimentation

  • Mentor colleagues on best practices and technical concepts of building large scale solutions


The hiring range for this position in New York or Seattle is $175,800 to $235,700 per year, in San Francisco is $183,700 to $246,400 per year, and in Los Angeles is $167,700 to $224,900 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.


Sobre Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology:

Na Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, estamos combinando imaginação e inovação para reimaginar as maneiras como as pessoas experimentam e se envolvem com as histórias e produtos mais adorados do mundo. Nosso trabalho é amplo e profundamente sofisticado. Criamos experiências incríveis, transformamos o futuro da mídia e criamos produtos e plataformas que permitem a conexão entre pessoas em todos os lugares e as histórias e esportes que elas amam.

A capacidade da Disney de unir tecnologia de nível mundial com criatividade exclusiva nos torna únicos. Ela está no centro do nosso passado, presente e futuro. Somos contadores de histórias e inovadores. Criadores e construtores. Animadores e engenheiros.

Sobre The Walt Disney Company:

A The Walt Disney Company, juntamente com suas subsidiárias e afiliadas, é uma líder diversificada em entretenimento familiar e mídia internacional que inclui três segmentos principais de negócios: Disney Entertainment, ESPN e Disney Experiences. Desde seus primeiros passos como um estúdio de desenho animado na década de 1920 até se tornar o atual nome de destaque na indústria do entretenimento, a Disney orgulhosamente dá continuidade a seu legado de criação de histórias e experiências de padrão internacional para toda a família. As histórias, personagens e experiências da Disney tocam consumidores e visitantes de todas as partes do mundo. Com operações em mais de 40 países, nossos funcionários e colaboradores trabalham juntos para criar experiências de entretenimento adoradas por todos.

Esta vaga é oferecida junto à Disney Streaming Technology LLC, que é parte de um segmento de negócios que chamamos de Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology.

Disney Streaming Technology LLC é um empregador de oportunidades iguais. Os candidatos serão selecionados para emprego independente de raça, religião, cor, sexo, orientação sexual, gênero, identidade de gênero, expressão de gênero, nacionalidade, ancestralidade, idade, estado civil, status militar ou de veterano, quadro clínico, informações genéticas ou deficiência, ou qualquer outro motivo proibido por lei federal, estadual ou local. A Disney defende um ambiente de negócios em que ideias e decisões de todas as pessoas nos ajudam a crescer, inovar, criar as melhores histórias e ser relevantes em um mundo em constante evolução.

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