Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is looking to solve the problem of advancing the technological backbone for Disney's media business globally by building and advancing world-class products, enhancing storytelling, and driving velocity, innovation, and scalability. Specifically, the Ad Platforms team needs to drive advertising performance, innovation, and value in Disney's sports, news, and entertainment content across all media platforms.
Requirements
- Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, and numerical optimization with experience in programming languages such as Python (primary), Java and SQL
- Familiarity with tools and frameworks such as TensorFlow, Pytorch, Hugging libraries etc
- Model optimization and inference (TensorRT, ONNX, DeepSpeed)
- Experience with OpenAI GPT models, Claude, Gemini, Llama, or similar LLMs
- Fine-tuning (LoRA, PEFT, QLoRA, adapters)
- Prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and context management
- Tokenization, embeddings, and vector search
Responsibilities
- Reviewing designs and implementations for best practices
- Exploring, researching, implementing proofs-of-concept, and proposing solutions that will reduce cost and overhead, improve maintainability, minimize the time features take to be in production.
- Defining, reviewing, and documenting software and models in a high throughput, low latency environment.
- Mentoring and inspiring team members in all aspects of professional software development.
- Support on call activities with the MLP and Research teams
- Translating requirements into well-defined technical implementations.
- Skilled in defining technical and operational metrics for measuring system health.
Other
- Excellent communication and collaboration across teams and organizations.
- A passion for mentoring, learning, and adapting to a very dynamic and fast-paced environment
- Proven ability to collaborate with product teams, translating requirements into well-defined technical implementations.
- Kindness and pragmatic optimism.
- Your unique view and experience.
