The Walt Disney Company · 3 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer - AI Core Engineering
Glendale, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$142K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expThe Walt Disney Company is a global leader in media and entertainment, and they are seeking a Senior AI Engineer to build AI core capabilities for Ad Technology. This role involves designing APIs, SDKs, and reusable services to facilitate the rapid adoption of AI across engineering teams while ensuring quality and governance in AI solutions.
Amusement Park and ArcadeAnimationConsumer GoodsDigital MediaE-CommerceMedia and EntertainmentMulti-level MarketingPerforming ArtsResorts
Responsibilities
Define and implement shared design patterns for agents and services, including context management, retrieval, safety, and evaluation
Establish reusable blueprints that standardize how AI solutions are built across Ad Tech
Build production-ready agents, initializers, and libraries for common use cases (summarization, troubleshooting, semantic extraction)
Develop high-quality APIs and SDKs that simplify adoption of AI capabilities by other engineering teams
Deliver core services for retrieval, memory, and orchestration, integrated with enterprise and consumer facing systems
Create internal webapps and dashboards that expose AI capabilities, evaluation metrics, and adoption accelerators
Embed guardrails, compliance checks, and prompt safety into all shared components
Implement model evaluation and observability frameworks for quality, reliability, and cost monitoring at scale
Qualification
Required
5+ years of backend or applied AI/ML engineering with a track record of building production-grade systems
Proficiency in Python (libraries, testing, packaging) and building scalable APIs or SDKs
Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Claude) and frameworks such as LangChain or LangGraph
Experience integrating with enterprise AI services such as AWS Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry, including model invocation, routing, and governance integration
Experience developing reusable agents, libraries, or internal tooling adopted by multiple teams
Knowledge of guardrails and evaluation techniques for LLMs, including prompt safety, output validation, and quality regression testing
Strong collaboration and communication skills; able to work across infra, data, security, and product teams
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master's preferred), or equivalent experience
Preferred
Experience building AI enablement tooling (registries, agent initializers, internal frameworks) for enterprise use
Familiarity with observability for AI systems: tracing, latency and cost dashboards, drift detection
Knowledge of AI gateway patterns (e.g., routing, usage throttling, model fallback, quota enforcement)
Exposure to multi-agent orchestration, simulation frameworks, or synthetic data for testing/eval
Understanding of enterprise governance: security, compliance, audit, and policy enforcement in AI systems
Previous experience in a developer enablement role (platform engineering, frameworks, SDKs) where reusable components accelerated adoption across large organizations
Benefits
A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
Company
The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$11BKey Investors
Citibank
2020-04-13Post Ipo Debt· $5B
2020-03-20Post Ipo Debt· $6B
1978-01-06IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Iger
CEO
Christine M. McCarthy
Senior Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2026-01-20
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