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.
Currently tracking 36 active AI roles, down 10% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $112k–$409k (avg $197k).
Disney currently has 45 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: Sr Software Engineer (3), Disney Research Studio Intern (2), Lead Machine Learning Engineer (2), Principal Software Engineer (2), Director, Decision Science AI/ML Engineering & Ops. Most positions are in Engineering and Research.
Disney's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (49%), data (20%), application (18%). 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 (41 roles), Switzerland (2 roles), China (1 role), Argentina (1 role).
Job postings at Disney most frequently reference: model serving, agent orchestration, llm observability, rag, evals.
In the past 30 days, Disney has posted 38 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer Lead Machine Learning Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AI/ML solutions, including agentic systems, multi-modal models, RAG, and Responsible AI applications. The role involves building an AI enablement platform, driving the full AI/ML lifecycle, and providing technical leadership for production-scale AI systems, evaluation frameworks, and responsible AI practices. | AgentServe | 9 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Omni-Channel Analytics Mgr This role focuses on designing, architecting, and deploying advanced AI/ML solutions, including Generative AI and multi-agent systems, using frameworks like Agentic Frameworks and MCP. It involves establishing best practices for prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and evaluation, and translating complex technical outputs into actionable insights for senior leadership. The role also includes mentoring junior team members and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders. | AgentPost-train | 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 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on designing and building AI-driven systems for observability and reliability in Disney's streaming ecosystem. The role involves developing agentic systems, machine learning models, and real-time pipelines to automate issue detection and root cause analysis. Key responsibilities include building AI capabilities, developing data pipelines, creating scalable APIs, and embedding intelligence into operational workflows. | AgentData | 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 |
| Staff GenAI/ML Engineer (Emerging Tech & AI Automation) Project Hire Staff GenAI/ML Engineer role focused on designing, prototyping, and building GenAI-enabled solutions and platform components for enterprise use cases. This role involves integrating LLMs, RAG, fine-tuning, and prompt engineering, as well as contributing to technical strategy and MLOps best practices. | AgentServe | 8 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on building, deploying, and operating machine learning models for self-healing infrastructure management systems. It involves designing, training, and deploying models for anomaly detection, forecasting, and predictive analytics, as well as building near-real-time inference pipelines and closed-loop, event-driven systems that trigger automated remediation actions. The role owns the full ML lifecycle and integrates AI/ML-driven insights into operational tools and workflows. | ServeAgent | 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 |
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Ad Platforms Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Disney's Ad Platforms, focusing on applying and scaling AI/ML solutions for advertising domains like forecasting, targeting, and delivery. The role involves inventing, prototyping, deploying, and scaling ML systems, with a strong emphasis on LLMs, RAG, and evaluation methodologies. Requires significant experience in developing and deploying large-scale ML systems and mentoring junior engineers. | AgentServe | 8 |
| 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 |
| Sr Product Software Engineer Senior Product Software Engineer on the Ads Data team, responsible for designing, building, and scaling data foundations that power AI adoption across Ad Technology. This includes owning data flow into AI-ready stores, from streaming and embedding pipelines to vector stores and monitoring systems. The role involves partnering with AI Core Engineering to enable shared agents and developer tools with robust data, and building reliable, real-time data foundations for AI applications. | AgentData | 7 |
| Senior Product Software Engineer - Data Platform This role focuses on automating data platform operations by building services and internal tooling, with a strong emphasis on AI-assisted automation for monitoring and debugging complex data pipelines. It involves designing and implementing LLM-assisted triage services and agentic workflows to improve incident response and data quality. | AgentData | 7 |
| Director, Production Innovation Technology (Disney Entertainment Television) Director of Production Innovation Technology at Disney Entertainment Television, focusing on developing and scaling AI-enabled creative workflows and production platforms for episodic storytelling. The role emphasizes a product-oriented mindset, driving adoption, and delivering externally visible creative outcomes and competitive differentiation. | ShipAgent | 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 |
| Director, Integrated Supply Chain Intelligence Director of Integrated Supply Chain Intelligence at Disney, responsible for building and scaling the company's supply chain intelligence capabilities. This role involves setting strategy, developing roadmaps, and leading a team to integrate data, systems, and processes across sourcing, production, logistics, and compliance. The position requires applying advanced analytics and machine learning to improve forecasting, identify risks, manage exceptions, and optimize costs, ultimately driving business value and resilience in the supply chain. | AgentData | 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 |
| Sr Data Engineer Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and scale data foundations for AI adoption in Ad Technology. Owns data flow into AI-ready stores, including streaming, embedding, and vector stores. Partners with AI Core Engineering to enable shared agents and developer tools with real-time data. Builds resilient pipelines for AI applications, focusing on observability, quality, and reliability. | DataAgent | 7 |
| Lead Security Engineer - Software Engineer Lead Security Engineer responsible for developing security automation capabilities using AI/ML solutions like LLMs, NLP, and computer vision to protect company assets. The role involves designing, developing, testing, and deploying software in Python, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other engineers. | Agent | 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 |
| Sr. Analyst, Continuous Improvement Engineering This role focuses on reengineering processes for AI-first environments, applying Lean Six Sigma methodologies, and driving measurable improvements in performance and customer outcomes. The Senior Analyst will architect AI-first process reengineering strategies, integrate cutting-edge technologies like Microsoft Copilot, develop AI agents to improve process and systems flow, and apply foundation models based on generative AI. The role also involves championing Lean Six Sigma, driving improvements in software/hardware lifecycle, and leading cross-functional initiatives. | Agent | 7 |
| Sr Analyst-Advanced Analytics & BI This role focuses on developing and deploying machine learning models and data products for direct channel marketing optimization within Disney Experiences. The analyst will translate business needs into data requirements, build data pipelines, conduct end-to-end analysis, design experiments, and create visualizations to drive marketing strategy and decision-making. The role emphasizes translating insights for stakeholders and mentoring on best practices, including responsible AI. | Ship | 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 Manager Software Engineering Senior Engineering Manager to lead a software engineering team building and supporting ML-assisted content inspection pipelines within Disney's Content Platform Engineering organization. The role involves leading engineers in designing, implementing, and operating production systems that integrate LLMs and computer vision techniques for content automation, while also remaining involved in system design and architectural decisions. The manager will contribute to technical strategy, foster team development, and ensure alignment with product goals. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Lead Machine Learning Engineer Lead Machine Learning Engineer for Disney's Ad Platform Engineering, focusing on designing, building, and operating production ML systems for advertising use cases like inventory forecasting, pricing, targeting, and ad delivery. The role involves technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and ensuring ML solutions are reliable, performant, and cost-efficient in a low-latency, high-throughput environment. | ServePost-train | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Ad Platforms. This role focuses on designing, building, and operating production ML systems for advertising use cases like inventory forecasting, pricing, targeting, and ad delivery. The position requires hands-on experience with the full ML model lifecycle in low-latency, high-throughput environments at a massive scale, with a strong emphasis on production outcomes and system reliability. | ServeData | 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 |
| Production Innovation Technologist (PH) Seeking a Production Innovation Technologist with expertise in advanced 3D compositing and generative technologies. This role involves designing, training, and fine-tuning models (e.g., LoRA, IP adapters, Gaussian Splatting) to solve production-scale challenges, evaluating new ML approaches, and integrating these into existing pipelines. The technologist will act as a senior technical authority, translating creative objectives into production-ready solutions and collaborating with ML Engineers to bridge research and production. | Post-trainServe | 7 |
| Sr Software Engineer-Licensing/AI Systems Senior Software Engineer role focused on developing and deploying custom AI solutions using LLMs to automate business processes and improve business outcomes within the Disney Consumer Products - Licensing Technology organization. The role involves designing, configuring, and deploying models, integrating systems, and building web solutions, with a strong emphasis on Java, Python, and cloud technologies. | Agent | 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 |
| Sr. Manager, Machine Learning Engineering Senior Manager, Machine Learning Engineering to lead a team building and operating production ML systems for cross-media measurement, identity resolution, and audience development. Requires deep applied ML and ML engineering expertise, robust MLOps, and ownership of data pipelines for large-scale data. Must enforce privacy and governance. | AgentServe | 7 |
| Sr Machine Learning Engineer Senior Machine Learning Engineer responsible for the end-to-end development, deployment, and monitoring of machine learning solutions for audience identity, look-alike modeling, and cross-platform measurement. This role involves building scalable ML pipelines, feature engineering, MLOps, and collaborating with stakeholders to improve analytics and product features. Requires strong Python/SQL skills, production experience with deep learning/GenAI/RAG systems, and cloud-native data platforms. | ServeData | 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 |
| Lead Software Engineer-Licensing/AI Systems Lead Software Engineer to drive the development of scalable, intelligent systems that support licensing financial operations and AI-driven decision-making. This role will be instrumental in shaping the architecture and delivery of next-generation platforms that power financial licensing workflows and predictive analytics. Apply machine learning and AI techniques to optimize licensing workflows, forecasting, and compliance monitoring. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 |
| Lead Data Scientist, Content Intelligence Lead Data Scientist role focused on developing and deploying AI/ML techniques to understand media content. The role involves conceptualizing and co-developing AI/ML solutions, prompt engineering, evaluation of VLM outputs, developing evaluation metrics for temporal tasks, bridging experimentation and production, establishing best practices for generative and non-generative AI/ML, and experimenting with techniques like PEFT, Quantization, and Vector embeddings for media retrieval. It requires proficiency in Python, deep learning frameworks, LLM prompting and fine-tuning, and cloud platforms. | Post-trainAgent | 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 |
| Sr Data Engineer Senior Data Engineer responsible for designing, building, and scaling data foundations that power AI adoption across Ad Technology. This includes owning data flow into AI-ready stores, streaming pipelines, embedding pipelines, vector stores, and monitoring systems. The role involves partnering with AI Core Engineering to enable shared agents and developer tools with robust, real-time data, and mentoring junior team members. | DataAgent | 5 |