Disney
Media · Media conglomerate
- HQ
- Burbank, US
- Founded
- 1923
- Size
- 220,000+
- Website
- disney.com
Currently tracking 36 active AI roles, down 10% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $112k–$409k (avg $197k).
Media · Media conglomerate
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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer for Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology, focusing on building and enhancing platform capabilities with an emphasis on computer vision and machine learning workflows for media supply chain operations. The role involves designing and implementing scalable systems and data pipelines for automated media asset inspection and validation. | DataServe | 5 |
| Sr Software Engineer - Content Platform Engineering Senior Software Engineer for Content Platform Engineering at Disney, focusing on building and enhancing platform capabilities with an emphasis on computer vision and machine learning (ML) workflows. The role involves designing and implementing scalable systems and data pipelines for automated inspection, validation, and enrichment of media assets using computer vision, and building end-to-end media inspection pipelines. | Agent | 5 |
| Sr Software Engineer Senior Software Engineer role focused on building and enhancing platform capabilities for Disney's media supply chain, with an emphasis on computer vision and machine learning workflows. The role involves designing and implementing scalable systems and data pipelines for automated media asset inspection, validation, and enrichment using computer vision. | DataServe | 5 |
| Staff Content Security Engineer This role focuses on content security within the entertainment industry, involving the protection of creative content throughout the production lifecycle. It requires expertise in cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and assessing security risks associated with AI tools and generative AI. The engineer will partner with creative technologists, conduct security assessments, advocate for secure workflows, and mentor other engineers. While AI is mentioned in the context of security implications and assessment, the core function is not building or deploying AI models. | — | 3 |
| Real-Time Environment Artist - Expression of Interest - ILM San Francisco This role focuses on creating 3D assets and environments for real-time engines, supporting interactive experiences and virtual production workflows. Responsibilities include modeling, texturing, environment layout, material application, lighting, asset optimization, and bug fixing within a real-time engine like Unreal Engine or Unity. The artist will collaborate with various teams to solve artistic and technical challenges and ensure visual quality and performance requirements are met. | — | 0 |
| WABC Executive Director – Broadcast Technology Executive Director of Broadcast Technology at WABC, responsible for leading day-to-day broadcast technology operations, infrastructure planning, engineering support, broadcast systems reliability, technical workflows, and operational execution in a multiplatform news environment. The role involves managing technical teams, supporting news and production leadership, overseeing system maintenance and upgrades, and ensuring compliance with regulations. Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and IP-based workflows is preferred. | — | 0 |
| Remote Camera Operations Coordinator I This role supports remote production workflows by deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting technology for home studios, field reporting, and remote events. It involves collaboration with production and operations teams to ensure seamless broadcast execution, managing equipment, and handling administrative tasks like invoicing and shipping logistics. The position also requires availability outside standard business hours and willingness to travel. | — | 0 |
| Sr Business System Analyst - Project Hire This role is for a Sr. Business System Analyst within Disney's Enterprise Technology organization, focusing on the Financial Value Chain. The position is a 12-month project hire responsible for supporting business architecture, requirements gathering, functional design, testing, and delivery of finance platforms and services. The role requires experience in Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), specifically Workforce Management/Time Keeping systems, and Business Architecture methodologies within an agile SDLC. It involves collaboration with various business and technology teams to ensure technology solutions align with business strategies and architectural standards. | — | 0 |
| Senior Lighting Artist / Technical Director - Expression of Interest - ILM San Francisco Senior Lighting Artist / Technical Director at ILM San Francisco, focusing on developing immersive experiences for VR, AR, and location-based platforms. Responsibilities include defining and implementing lighting tools and setups, collaborating with art directors and engineers, and optimizing real-time rendering for environments, characters, and game assets. Requires strong technical understanding of real-time lighting, shaders, materials, and experience with game engines like Unreal/Unity. | — | 0 |
| Senior Software Engineer This role is for a Senior Software Engineer on the Content Platforms team at Disney. The team's mission is to "reimagine the technical ecosystem that empowers The Walt Disney Company to harness its unparalleled storytelling and distribute it around the world." The engineer will be responsible for building tools to empower workflows and reporting on the digital supply chain, working within the Frontend Web and Experience team. The role involves creating and maintaining shared JavaScript libraries and UI components, implementing business logic, code review, and acting as a tech leader. The team is investing in innovative technology for a state-of-the-art content pipeline. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Database Administration Manager of Database Administration responsible for leading the strategic direction, performance, and security of enterprise database environments. This role ensures that existing business issues are addressed through thoughtful planning, execution, and continuous improvement. | — | 0 |
| Part-Time Media Replay Operator I The Part-Time Media Replay Operator I is responsible for organizing, recording, editing, and playing back server-based material during live and pre-recorded productions, ensuring high standards for video and audio quality. This role involves local media management, operating broadcast equipment, and basic editing techniques on replay and non-linear systems within a fast-paced studio environment. | — | 0 |