Currently tracking 36 active AI roles, down 46% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $112k–$409k (avg $197k).
Disney currently has 58 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Sr Software Engineer (5), Principal Software Engineer (4), Disney Research Studio Intern (2), Lead Machine Learning Engineer (2), Lead Software Engineer (2). Most positions are in Engineering and Product.
Disney's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (50%), data (21%), application (19%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Disney is hiring AI talent in: United States (53 roles), Switzerland (2 roles), India (1 role), China (1 role).
Job postings at Disney most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, rag, llm observability, evals.
In the past 30 days, Disney has posted 32 new AI-related roles. That is a -22% change versus the prior 30 days (41 → 32).
Disney currently has 51 active AI-related job listings. The majority of these roles, 49%, are focused on agents, with data roles comprising 20% of the total. Engineering is the most frequent function for these positions. The company is actively hiring for roles that frequently mention technologies such as model serving, agent orchestration, and fine-tuning. Over the last 30 days, Disney has added 40 new AI roles, representing an 82% increase compared to the previous 30-day period.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Sr Staff R&D Engineer This role leads the research, design, and implementation of AI/ML technologies for audio intelligence in media production. The engineer will architect, build, and optimize machine learning systems, focusing on speech processing, style transfer, source separation, and generative audio synthesis. Responsibilities include driving scalable training pipelines, developing generative models, managing the end-to-end model lifecycle, and collaborating on integration into a SaaS environment. | Post-trainServe | 9 |
| Principal Software Engineer Research and development role focused on future generation image and video coding using ML/AI methods. Involves advanced computer vision, applied ML/AI for media enhancement, understanding, analysis, and compression. Will represent Disney at standards bodies and conduct multidisciplinary research in video technologies, aiming for IP generation and technical leadership. | Data | 8 |
| Lead Product Manager, AI Platform Lead Product Manager for an internal AI Platform, focusing on building and scaling AI capabilities. The role involves owning the end-to-end product lifecycle from stakeholder needs to shipped AI features, including scoping, building agents and retrieval pipelines, driving technical direction, and establishing evaluation patterns. Requires strong technical and product skills, ability to operate independently, and influence across teams. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Director, Decision Science AI/ML Engineering & Ops Director of Decision Science AI/ML Engineering & Ops responsible for building and leading a team that productionizes decision science models and algorithms into scalable, observable, and resilient SaaS products. This role focuses on MLOps strategy, creating reusable building blocks, automated pipelines, and ensuring operational excellence for AI/ML systems across various Disney business units. | ServeData | 8 |
| Manager - Applied AI Manager for an Applied AI Acceleration team that embeds with business units to prototype and ship AI-powered products. This role involves leading a team of 2-4 engineers, managing end-to-end delivery of AI engagements, reviewing code, and building reusable components. The focus is on solving real business problems with AI solutions and translating between business outcomes and technical tradeoffs. | AgentShip | 8 |
| Director, Decision Science Technology Director of Decision Science Technology at Disney, responsible for leading a multi-disciplinary team to build strategic SaaS applications that deliver AI/ML and science capabilities to the business. The role involves owning the end-to-end technology stack from data ingestion to user interface, focusing on AI-powered products with embedded AI, conversational interfaces, and agentic capabilities. Requires strong leadership, architectural vision, and collaboration skills to drive innovation and operational excellence in a matrixed environment. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Sr Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of AI-driven systems for reliability and performance of Disney's streaming ecosystem. This includes developing agentic systems, ML models, and real-time pipelines for automated detection, root cause analysis, and proactive insights. The role involves owning architectural vision for autonomous agents, translating business needs into scalable AI solutions, and mentoring junior engineers in an AI-native environment. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Staff GenAI/ML Engineer (Emerging Tech & AI Automation) Project Hire Staff GenAI/ML Engineer role focused on exploring and prototyping Generative AI and LLM solutions for enterprise-wide transformation. Responsibilities include designing, implementing, and evaluating GenAI-enabled systems like chatbots and copilots, integrating techniques such as RAG and fine-tuning, and building reusable PoCs and platform components. The role requires strong Python, cloud, and MLOps experience, with a focus on rapid prototyping and innovation. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Sr Data Scientist Senior Data Scientist role focused on designing, developing, and deploying advanced NLP, multimodal ML, and LLM solutions for content understanding use cases across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+. Responsibilities include building and adapting models for classification, similarity, retrieval, and enrichment, fine-tuning foundation models, and optimizing training/inference workflows. Requires strong Python, deep learning framework experience, and production ML systems knowledge. | Post-trainServe | 8 |
| Lead Data Scientist, Ad Research Lead Data Scientist for Disney's Ad Research team, focusing on advancing AI/ML capabilities in ad platforms. The role involves spearheading ML initiatives for ad decisioning, forecasting, and user experience, with a significant focus on developing evaluation pipelines for generative AI (image, video, LLM-based agents) and supporting generative AI production development through data generation and evaluation. | AgentEval Gate | 8 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Ad Platforms Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on generative AI (mixed media, video, LLMs, agentic applications) and traditional ML for Disney's Ad Platforms. Responsibilities include developing, optimizing, and productionizing these technologies, creating ML datasets, evaluating quality, and mentoring junior engineers. The role emphasizes innovation in advertising domains like forecasting, pricing, and targeting. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Ads Research Lead Machine Learning Engineer focused on generative AI (mixed media, video, audio, LLMs, agentic workflows) and traditional ML for ad platforms. Responsibilities include developing, optimizing, and productionizing these technologies, driving innovation, and building scalable ML systems. The role also involves mentoring junior engineers and working across various advertising domains like forecasting, pricing, and targeting. | AgentPost-train | 8 |
| Decision Science Product Manager Product Manager for Decision Science at Disney, focusing on leading product strategy, developing outcome-based roadmaps, and creating requirements for advanced analytics and complex science models. The role involves building data solution prototypes, understanding and guiding machine learning product development, and owning the vision for analytical systems. Responsibilities include integrating these systems into business processes, gathering system requirements, developing solutions, testing, training, and measuring performance. Requires experience in operationalizing ML products, using tools like SQL, Python/R, and Tableau, and understanding data science methods, infrastructure, software development, and system architecture. | ShipAgent | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer-AI Licensing & Publishing Systems Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of scalable, intelligent systems for the Licensing & Publishing business using AI-driven decision making. This role will shape the architecture and delivery of next-generation platforms for licensing and book publishing workflows and predictive analytics, applying ML/AI to optimize workflows, forecasting, and compliance. | AgentData | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer focused on research and development for future generation image and video coding, applying ML/AI methods. The role involves participating in standards bodies, conducting research in computer vision and applied ML/AI for media enhancement, understanding, analysis, and compression, and driving architectural innovation and IP generation. Experience with video coding standards, deep learning for video processing, and multimedia stack is required. | Data | 7 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on building and supporting enterprise Generative AI applications, specifically a conversational AI platform for interacting with operational data. Responsibilities include Python development, retrieval/grounding workflows, prompt design, backend integration, and LLMOps practices like evaluation, observability, deployment, agentic workflows, and troubleshooting. Requires experience with GenAI applications, retrieval patterns, API integration, and cloud development. Experience with AI developer tools is also required. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Product Manager II- Commerce and Personalization Product Manager role focused on a machine learning-powered personalization engine for a consumer streaming service. The role involves driving strategy and execution for the personalization platform, including model improvements, data expansion, and surface experiments to maximize subscriber lifetime value. Key responsibilities include defining metrics, partnering with ML/Data Science to build models, launching new personalization capabilities, designing experiments, ensuring model quality, and coordinating cross-functionally. Experience with production ML models, experimentation, and subscription businesses is required. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Sr Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to drive and develop scalable data and application integration solutions using Mulesoft for licensing financial systems and AI-powered applications. Will apply ML/AI to optimize workflows, build and deploy LLM-based applications, and work with RAG, vector databases, and embeddings. Requires experience with Mulesoft, API Gateways, SQL, AI/ML frameworks, LLM applications, RAG, Java, Python, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes. | AgentData | 7 |
| VP, Analytics Engineering & DnA Operations The VP of Analytics Engineering & Operations will lead the data intelligence and analytics team for Disney Entertainment's Direct-to-Consumer business, focusing on analytics engineering, DnA operations, and AI analytics capabilities. This role involves defining strategy, overseeing semantic layer and metrics governance, advancing AI initiatives like LLM evaluation and agentic workflows, and ensuring operational excellence and scalability across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN. | AgentEval Gate | 7 |
| Manager, Machine Learning Engineering - Ad Platforms Manager, Machine Learning Engineering for Ad Platforms at Disney. This role involves leading a team of Data Scientists and ML Engineers to build, enhance, and maintain high-performance, distributed, microservice-based advertising platforms. Responsibilities include mentoring, driving best practices, defining strategic direction, overseeing end-to-end ML workflows (data collection, model development, deployment), fostering innovation, and ensuring responsible AI practices. Requires experience in translating business problems into scalable ML/GenAI solutions, deploying ML systems in production using cloud platforms and MLOps, and proficiency in Python and ML/DL frameworks. | ShipServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager, Ad Platforms Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager for Ad Platforms at Disney, responsible for leading teams to build, enhance, and maintain high-performance, distributed, microservice-based advertising platforms. The role focuses on advancing AI/ML capabilities within ad serving, overseeing the end-to-end ML workflow from data collection to deployment, and ensuring responsible AI practices. Requires strong people management, technical leadership in ML/GenAI solutions, and experience with MLOps and cloud platforms. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Senior Web Developer Seeking a Senior Web Developer to join the APAC Product and Technology team, focusing on designing, developing, and maintaining applications. The role involves leveraging agent-based architecture, integrating AI models for tasks like reasoning and summarization, building domain-specific knowledge bases with RAG, and working with stakeholders to deliver solutions. Experience with AI agent frameworks, LLM capabilities, RAG systems, and CI/CD pipelines is required. | Agent | 7 |
| Disney Research Studio Intern Internship role at Disney Research Studio in Zurich focusing on research and development of concepts, modules, or capabilities in image, video, geometry, or motion processing. Requires a Bachelor's degree in computer science and a proven track record of achieving significant results, with preferred experience in machine learning, computer vision, and related fields. | Data | 7 |
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer Lead Machine Learning Engineer responsible for developing, maintaining, and productionizing machine learning models for personalization and recommendation systems for Disney Streaming's products like Disney+ and Hulu. This role involves algorithm development, feature engineering, pipeline optimization, and collaboration with product and data teams to enhance user experience and drive personalization goals. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Distinguished Product Software Engineer Distinguished Product Software Engineer at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, responsible for defining and delivering state-of-the-art platforms and ML-driven experiences for Sports, News, and Developer Platform. The role involves technical vision, hands-on architecture, setting technical standards, and mentoring senior engineers to translate strategy into measurable consumer and platform outcomes. | Ship | 7 |
| Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, Ad Platforms Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer for Ad Platforms at Disney. This role focuses on applying ML and AI patterns to guide ML and Research teams in creating scalable, performant models and pipelines. Responsibilities include reviewing designs, influencing roadmaps, exploring solutions, defining software/models in high throughput/low latency environments, and mentoring. Requires deep expertise in LLMs, fine-tuning, RAG, prompt engineering, embeddings, vector search, and tokenization, with experience in model optimization and inference. | AgentPost-train | 7 |
| Disney Research Studio Intern Internship at Disney Research Studio in Zurich focusing on research, development, and implementation of concepts, modules, or capabilities in image, video, geometry, or motion processing. Collaboration with engineers and researchers, and communication of project results are key responsibilities. Requires a Bachelor's degree in computer science and a proven track record of achieving significant results, with preferred experience in machine learning, computer vision, or related fields. | Data | 7 |
| Lead Software Engineer Lead Software Engineer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, focusing on building and operating content inspection pipelines. The role involves leading the development of systems that use computer vision and VLMs to analyze media assets, extracting temporal metadata for automated inspection, validation, and enrichment. This will improve content quality, operational efficiency, and media discovery across Disney's global content ecosystem. The engineer will influence architectural direction, collaborate with teams, and ensure system reliability and scalability. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - News Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on building and operating ML systems for personalized news content delivery across various platforms. The role involves designing and developing infrastructure for the full ML lifecycle, including data pipelines, feature engineering, training, and low-latency online serving. Key responsibilities include driving ML-driven solutions for recommendation systems, RAG, and autogenerated tagging, and ensuring scalable, impactful solutions. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to conduct multidisciplinary research and development in video streaming for live and on-demand use cases, focusing on optimizing media processing, developing quality and performance assessment frameworks, and conducting innovative media R&D. The role involves applying advanced computer vision algorithms and ML/AI techniques to media enhancement, understanding, analysis, and compression, influencing codebases, driving technical standards, and leading complex projects. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer Lead Machine Learning Engineer responsible for technical leadership of complex ML systems and data foundations. Builds predictive systems at scale for identity, audience, and cross-platform measurement using deep learning, genAI, or RAG. Architects scalable ML platforms, MLOps, and data foundations, ensuring privacy and compliance. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Personalization Senior Machine Learning Engineer focused on personalization and recommendation algorithms for Disney Streaming's products (Disney+, Hulu). Responsibilities include algorithm development, feature engineering, pipeline maintenance, and collaborating with product and data teams. Requires strong Python, SQL, and ML experience, with a focus on production deployment. | ShipPost-train | 7 |
| Staff Data Engineer (Audio/ML) Staff Data Engineer focused on building and optimizing data pipelines for audio/ML research, specifically for training, retraining, and evaluating machine learning models in immersive and multichannel audio applications. | Data | 7 |
| Senior, Software Engineer (Machine Learning) Senior Software Engineer with a focus on Machine Learning to join the Content Platforms Engineering team. The role involves building and enhancing platform capabilities, with an emphasis on computer vision and ML workflows for Disney's media supply chain. Responsibilities include designing and building AI-powered solutions, optimizing LLMs, and integrating ML models into production systems. Experience with coding agents is also mentioned. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer Principal Site Reliability Engineer responsible for leading and impacting SRE culture, advocating for service level management, and designing/building/supporting products and platforms. This role will lead the adoption of AI/LLM-assisted reliability engineering, architecting and operating AI-enabled capabilities, and optimizing system reliability through advanced analytics. The role requires expertise in evaluating GPT model families, engineering RAG systems, and automating infrastructure and operations. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer - AI Core Engineering Senior AI Engineer to build AI core capabilities and tooling that accelerate teams across Ad Technology. This role blends backend engineering, LLM orchestration, and developer enablement, focusing on creating shared agents, initializers, registries, and reusable services and web applications to make AI adoption fast, safe, and cost-effective. The work emphasizes common design principles, guardrails, governance, observability, and evaluation to enable teams to deliver high-quality AI solutions quickly. | Agent | 7 |
| Senior Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain internal applications and integrations for cybersecurity operations, focusing on automating compliance, improving risk visibility, and accelerating security workflows using IaC and AI-driven modeling. Will collaborate with compliance teams to translate audit requirements into code and contribute to data ingestion and analytics pipelines. Develops AI/ML models for automated risk categorization, configuration detection, or control validation. | DataAgent | 7 |