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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |