Sr Machine Learning Engineer (AI)

Location: Orlando, Florida, United States; in-office position

Salary: $137,200–$184,000 per year, plus potential bonus and/or long-term incentive units.

Company

Disney Experiences Technology develops digital and physical guest experiences across parks, resorts, cruise lines, vacation products, attractions, food and beverage, transportation, merchandise, and digital products.

What you will do

• Design, develop, deploy, and operate enterprise-grade AI/ML solutions, including agentic systems, multimodal models, retrieval-augmented generation, and Responsible AI applications.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, model and agent versioning, automated deployments, rollbacks, release management, and infrastructure-as-code for the AI/ML platform.
• Build observability and monitoring for model performance, drift, data quality, latency, cost, reliability, and automated remediation.
• Develop multi-step agentic workflows and multi-agent orchestration platforms for production use.
• Create evaluation frameworks for LLMs and agent-based systems, covering quality, task success, safety compliance, and operational effectiveness.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, make architectural decisions, resolve blockers, and collaborate with product managers, data scientists, application teams, vendors, and partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying AI/ML solutions at scale, including 1–2 years of production experience with Generative AI.
• Hands-on MLOps and LLMOps experience with CI/CD, monitoring, observability, versioning, and lifecycle management.
• Production experience deploying and operating cloud-native ML solutions on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Expert-level Python programming and strong knowledge of machine learning, statistical modeling, supervised and unsupervised learning, and deep learning.
• Production experience with LLMs and multimodal models, plus advanced prompt engineering and optimization skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field or equivalent work experience, with strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform for ML workloads.
• Experience with vector databases and embedding technologies.
• Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Mathematical Sciences, Information Systems, Software, Electrical, or Electronics Engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on AI enablement infrastructure supporting Disney Experiences digital initiatives.
• Collaborate across product, data science, application, vendor, and partner organizations.
• Medical, financial, and other benefits are available according to the offered level and position.
• Potential bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be included in the compensation package.