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 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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Senior Machine Learning Engineer This role focuses on building and operating distributed data and ML infrastructure that supports high-throughput, low-latency data processing and real-time ML use cases. The engineer will work on streaming data pipelines, feature computation systems, and ML-adjacent services, emphasizing hands-on engineering and distributed systems. | — | 5 |
| Sr Technical Business Development Manager, Partner Growth This role focuses on business development and partner growth within Disney's Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) streaming services. The Sr. Technical Business Development Manager will lead performance evaluations, financial modeling, and growth analyses for regional and global partners, using data and insights to drive subscriber growth, engagement, and retention. While the role leverages AI and automation tools for analysis and efficiency, it does not involve building or shipping AI models. | — | 5 |
| Sr Software Engineer (Project Hire) Senior Software Engineer role focused on enhancing and supporting Disney's digital commerce platforms using AI technologies like LLMs and Agentic AI. The role involves building and maintaining APIs and services, developing cloud-enabled solutions on AWS, and writing high-quality code. Experience with RAG, prompt design, guardrails, and agentic AI development tools is required. | Agent | 5 |
| VP, Content Analytics VP of Content Analytics to lead the analytics function supporting DTC Content Strategy across Disney+ and Hulu. This role will translate complex audience, engagement, and financial signals into recommendations for content valuation, portfolio composition, and global investment. The VP will also serve as the analytics anchor across cross-functional squads driving Engagement, Retention, and AI initiatives, partnering closely with Data Science to develop advanced forecasting and scenario planning models. | — | 5 |
| Sr Product Software Engineer This role is for a Sr. Product Software Engineer on the Ad Serving Engineering team at Disney. The team builds and maintains a high-performance, distributed, microservice-based Digital Advertising Platform. The role involves building components of a large-scale orchestration platform for VOD ad serving and contributing to innovation using technologies like LLM-assisted processing or model-driven decisioning. The team also evaluates opportunities to productionize and integrate LLMs/models into their high-scale service. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role within Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, focusing on the Client-Data team. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining data pipeline architecture, algorithm development, data analysis, and data science projects. The role involves working with big data tools, cloud technologies, and collaborating with various teams to ensure data requirements are met for front-end applications and engineering services. | Data | 5 |
| Social Media Producer - Live with Kelly and Mark Seeking a Social Media Producer for 'Live with Kelly and Mark' to lead social content strategy and execution across all platforms. Responsibilities include capturing, producing, publishing, and managing engaging social-first content during live broadcasts and behind-the-scenes production, while growing the show's digital presence. The role requires a strong visual storyteller with a deep understanding of platform-specific content trends and audience engagement, who thrives under pressure and can think creatively in real time. | — | 5 |
| Lead Full Stack Software Engineer - AI Assisted Engineering Practices Lead Full Stack Software Engineer responsible for leading the development and implementation of custom and commercial software projects, championing the use of AI-assisted development tools and process automation across the SDLC to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational efficiency. The role blends active software development with technical leadership, focusing on modern front-end engineering while maintaining full-stack responsibility. | Ship | 5 |
| Business Product Manager II Product Manager II for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, focusing on financial planning and cost management tooling ecosystem. Responsibilities include gathering requirements, defining product specifications, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving product lifecycle activities. The role requires experience with AI technologies and data science/analytics. | — | 5 |
| Senior Business & Information Analyst This role focuses on delivering data-driven insights, improving processes, and supporting resource management within Disney Experiences Technology. A key aspect is identifying, applying, and scaling AI and automation use cases to enhance analytical work, planning, and operational efficiency, while staying current on AI trends and responsible applications. | — | 5 |
| Sr Product Mgr Senior Product Manager to drive data collection outcomes across Disney's DTC streaming products, focusing on instrumentation and telemetry for analytics, experimentation, and personalization. The role bridges analytics, product, and engineering teams. | — | 5 |
| Security Engineer - Security Architecture and Engineering Security Engineer focused on designing and evaluating secure architecture solutions for Disney's global technology ecosystem, with a specific emphasis on assessing and securing AI/ML implementations by identifying threats and recommending mitigations. The role also involves evaluating emerging cybersecurity technologies and conducting threat modeling. | Eval Gate | 5 |
| Lead Product Manager, Data & AI Integration, Technology VMO (Project Hire) Lead Product Manager for Data & AI Integration within the Technology Vendor Management Office (VMO) at Disney. This role focuses on owning the strategy, roadmap, and execution of data and AI capabilities to optimize vendor management, enhance cost transparency, and support operational decision-making. The role involves translating business needs into product features, defining data requirements, and supporting the delivery of AI-assisted capabilities like forecasting and anomaly detection within established platforms. | Ship | 5 |
| Staff Software Engineer (Emerging Tech & AI Automation) Project Hire Staff Software Engineer focused on emerging tech and AI automation within Disney's Enterprise Technology group. The role involves leading rapid prototyping, building proofs-of-concept, and exploring AI-assisted development tools and new technologies to drive enterprise-wide transformation and productivity improvements. Requires strong full-stack engineering skills, cloud platform experience, and proficiency with LLM APIs and AI agents. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer II Software Engineer II role focused on observability tooling, data, and integrations within Disney Entertainment & ESPN. The role involves building and improving components for collecting, analyzing, and acting on critical system data, with an encouragement to leverage modern AI tools for development workflows and productivity. | — | 5 |
| Sr Full Stack Software Engineer Senior Full Stack Software Engineer for Disney's Payments and Accounting Technology team. This role involves designing, developing, and maintaining full-stack applications (Java/Spring backend, Angular/Node.js frontend) for payment processing, fraud detection, and accounting systems. The engineer will also leverage AI-assisted development practices and explore opportunities for AI/ML integration in fraud detection and payment optimization. Experience with AWS, Docker, and PCI-DSS compliance is required. | — | 5 |
| Principal Product Manager - Customer Identity Product Principal Product Manager for Disney's Customer Identity team, focusing on login, registration, and verification journeys for millions of global users. The role involves defining vision, strategy, and roadmap, leading cross-functional teams, and leveraging an AI toolset for experimentation and optimization. The position requires strong product management skills, experience with platform-level capabilities, and a data-driven approach to improve customer experience and reduce friction. | — | 5 |
| Principal Site Reliability Engineer This Principal Site Reliability Engineer role focuses on ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of Disney Experiences' digital platforms. The role involves leading DevOps culture, designing and supporting products/platforms, automating infrastructure, creating telemetry for monitoring, and leveraging AI for system reliability optimization. Expertise in Akamai, observability strategies, and defensive infrastructure is required. | — | 5 |
| Mgr, Business Intelligence Manager of Business Intelligence for Disney Photo Imaging, leading a team to deliver data-driven insights for strategy, operations, and guest experience. The role focuses on evolving BI capabilities towards AI-enabled, self-service analytics, partnering with cross-functional teams, and ensuring data infrastructure and insights empower decision-makers. Responsibilities include defining BI strategy, mentoring analysts, driving the evolution of BI from traditional reporting to AI-powered analytics, stakeholder partnership, analytical support, dashboard development, data pipeline collaboration, championing self-service BI, ensuring data quality, leveraging AI/ML for insights, and monitoring BI technologies. | — | 5 |
| Principal Software Engineer Principal Software Engineer to lead the technical architecture, implementation, and enhancement of services vital to managing descriptive metadata, rights, and availabilities across Disney's extensive catalog, including Disney+, Hulu. The role involves defining technical direction, leading architectural reviews, designing solutions, developing data-driven software systems, and driving performance optimization. Experience with ML/AI models for metadata enrichment, such as media embeddings extraction, is required. | Data | 5 |
| Sr Product Mgr II- Personalization Product Manager for personalization and experimentation in News & Entertainment digital products. Collaborates with ML teams to define and scale personalized experiences, manages A/B testing, and enhances personalization/experimentation tools. | Agent | 5 |