Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

On any given day at Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology, we’re reimagining ways to create magical viewing experiences for the world’s most beloved stories while also transforming Disney’s media business for the future. Whether that’s evolving our streaming and digital products in new and immersive ways, powering worldwide advertising and distribution to maximize flexibility and efficiency, or delivering Disney’s unmatched entertainment and sports content, every day is a moment to make a difference to partners and to hundreds of millions of people around the world.

A few reasons why we think you’d love working for Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology

• Building the future of Disney’s media business: DE&E Technologists are designing and building the infrastructure that will power Disney’s media, advertising, and distribution businesses for years to come.
• Reach & Scale: The products and platforms this group builds and operates delight millions of consumers every minute of every day – from Disney+ and Hulu, to ABC News and Entertainment, to ESPN and ESPN+, and much more.
• Innovation: We develop and execute groundbreaking products and techniques that shape industry norms and enhance how audiences experience sports, entertainment & news.

Job Summary:

The Search Machine Learning (ML) team powers the ML aspects of search engines for Disney+ and Hulu platforms, in a highly collaborative environment. ML-based services are embedded inside the entire life cycle of search journey, from query understanding, semantic retrieval, and engagement-based re-ranking of contents. Working closely with our core search counterpart team and product stakeholders, we are constantly testing new ideas, and bringing the proven ones into fruition, through experimentation.

In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining and iterating on the training jobs and inference endpoints for our ML micro-services that power Hulu Search Engine. In this role, you will be partnering closely with data engineering/data science leads, and work together towards constant iterations on our state-of-the-art ML micro-services.

Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:

• Design and develop batch training jobs (both on CPU and GPU) and inference endpoints.
• Ensuring healthy training configurations for tensorflow/pytorch training jobs, and serving layers (through both gRPC and REST).
• Ability  to  work  on  multi-faceted  projects  with  engineers  from  diversebackgrounds, heterogenous skills and across teams.
• Work in an Agile environment that focuses on collaboration and teamwork