Warner Bros. Discovery · 2 weeks ago
Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Video AI/Computer Vision
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$146K/yr - $270K/yr
7+ years expWarner Bros. Discovery is a leading media and entertainment company known for its iconic content and beloved brands. They are seeking a passionate machine learning expert to lead the design and development of next-gen video intelligence efforts, focusing on multimodal video understanding and computer vision capabilities.
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Responsibilities
Architect, build and scale computer vision and multimodal capabilities to support video understanding use-cases within WBD
Work closely with Principal Engineers on defining technical vision and strategy for the platform, as well as on prioritizing capabilities alongside with Product team
Develop or fine-tune models for fine grained scene segmentation, annotation, summarization, metadata generation, and selection from videos
Use open-source and off-the-shelf gen AI models as the starting point for model fine-tuning and improvements, maximizing precision and recall on WBD content and objectives
Help build a culture of innovation and engineering excellence by providing guidance to a team of machine learning engineers
Collaborate with adjacent engineering teams to ensure tight integrations to production pipelines in media supply chain and video streaming applications
Evaluate and work with vendors to ensure product deliverables and engineering standards are met, when applicable
Be a thought leader and engineering and operational excellence champion
Demonstrate and foster a culture of growth mindset and curiosity for keeping up with the evolving state of the art and be nimble to rapidly adapt to new models and architectures
Mentor, influence engineers across organizations and lead by example with high quality work at the organization level
Qualification
Required
7+ years of coding experience in the industry (C/C++, Java, Go, Python)
5+ years of applied machine learning experience to CV tasks
Masters/PhD degree required
Excellent familiarity with state-of-the-art large-language-models, image and video models and their applications to multi modal tasks
Ability to implement algorithms from state-of-the-art papers in the domain of computer vision (in particular, video processing)
Excellent architecture and design skills applied to Machine Learning products
Experience with PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
Very strong foundations in Computer Science, Data Structures and Algorithms
Ability to transfer high level, abstract and ambiguous tasks into a set of clear technical requirements
Ability to understand and embrace complex business interest and operations, and communicate the impact of AI in less technical terms with stakeholders
Systematic and pragmatic engineer, balancing business sense of urgency with engineering excellence
Ability to assess different solutions for the same problem with key metrics, trade-offs and be able to make an informed decision
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
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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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