Warner Bros. Discovery · 4 months ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer
WA Bellevue 205 108th Avenue NE, Suite S200
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$146K/yr - $270K/yr
8+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery is a premier global media and entertainment company committed to delivering world-class storytelling and innovative products. They are seeking a passionate Staff Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale personalization systems for their streaming app, Max, and future applications, while collaborating with various teams to drive machine learning projects from conception to completion.
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Responsibilities
Build and scale a recommendation system that powers a state of the art search & personalization experience to users across Max, HBO, Discovery+ and other WBD offerings
Collaborate with other ML/Ops engineers to develop and improve core components, infrastructure and architecture to train, deploy and serve models at scale
Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product teams and other key stakeholders and drive ML projects from conception to completion
Use and build upon open-source cloud computing technologies
Participate and support engineering leaders in strategic planning and demonstrate good judgment in setting and delivering against strategic goals for the team
Mentor, influence engineers across organizations and lead by example with high quality examples of your work at the organization level
Motivate, inspire and create a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation while constantly striving to be an advocate for doing what is right for our customers
Qualification
Required
8+ years of industry experience
Deep practical knowledge of ML systems, with information retrieval and ranking algorithms is required, experience with NLP techniques is a plus
Knowledge of large-scale distributed application architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning
Good practical knowledge in modern machine learning lifecycle
8+ years of programming experience using Python/Java with ability to rapidly prototype ideas and refine towards production
Ability to drive roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end
Excellent written and verbal communications skills, be comfortable presenting to large audiences
Advanced degree (M.S., or Ph.D.), or equivalent industry experience in software engineering, computer science, machine learning or related fields
Experience with one of the cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure
Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
An employee wellness program
Life and disability insurance
A retirement savings plan
Paid holidays and sick time
Vacation
Company
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$17.5BKey Investors
JP Morgan
2025-12-05Acquired
2025-06-09Post Ipo Debt· $17.5B
2005-07-15IPO
Leadership Team
David Zaslav
President and CEO
Mark Thompson
CEO
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