Senior Software Engineer - AI Core Engineering

The Walt Disney Company

Remote Actively hiring
Remote, USA Posted 93 days ago $141,900–$190,300 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior AI Engineer at Disney Ad Technology, you will join the AI Core Engineering team to develop foundational capabilities and tooling that streamline AI adoption across various engineering squads. Your daily tasks include designing APIs, SDKs, and reusable agents for common use cases like summarization and semantic extraction, ensuring they adhere to safety, governance, and observability standards. You’ll also create internal web applications and dashboards to monitor AI performance and facilitate scalable deployment of AI solutions. The role requires expertise in Python, LLM orchestration with frameworks like LangChain, and integration with enterprise services such as AWS Bedrock or Azure AI Foundry. Ideal candidates have a background in building reusable AI tooling and possess strong collaboration skills to work effectively across multiple teams within the organization.

Skills

Python LLM APIs AWS Bedrock Azure AI Foundry LangChain LangGraph APIs SDKs OpenAI Anthropic Claude Observability Tracing Latency and cost dashboards Drift detection Multi-agent orchestration Synthetic data Enterprise governance Security Compliance Audit Policy enforcement

What you'll do

  • Define and implement shared design patterns for agents and services in AI solutions.
  • Build production-ready agents and libraries for common use cases like summarization and troubleshooting.
  • Develop high-quality APIs and SDKs to simplify the adoption of AI capabilities by other teams.
  • Deliver core services for retrieval, memory, and orchestration integrated with enterprise systems.
  • Embed guardrails and compliance checks into shared components to ensure safety and governance.
  • Implement model evaluation frameworks for quality, reliability, and cost monitoring at scale.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of backend or applied AI/ML engineering with production-grade system experience.
  • Proficiency in Python, testing, packaging, and building scalable APIs or SDKs.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI) and frameworks like LangChain.
  • Experience integrating enterprise AI services such as AWS Bedrock for model invocation.
  • Knowledge of guardrails, prompt safety, output validation, and quality regression testing.
  • Strong collaboration skills working across infrastructure, data, security, and product teams.

Market check

Salary context

This $141,900–$190,300 range sits above 43% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$130,818–$234,000

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$142,450–$217,725

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is a diversified global entertainment and media enterprise operating in segments including Disney Parks, Experiences and Products; Entertainment (ABC, Hulu, Disney+); and ESPN. Industry: Entertainment & Media

The Walt Disney Company currently has 118 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $141,900–$190,300 across 110 roles with salary data.

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