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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
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$141,900–$190,300
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As a Sr Staff R&D Engineer (AI/ML) in the Skywalker Sound Development Group, you will lead the development of advanced audio intelligence technologies for global media production, focusing on speech processing, style transfer, upmixing, source separation, and generative audio synthesis. Your day-to-day responsibilities include architecting and deploying scalable model training pipelines using PyTorch and distributed computing frameworks, developing novel generative audio models optimized for professional soundtrack production, and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of machine learning models from pretraining to CI/CD integration. You will collaborate with product and engineering teams to integrate these solutions into a secure SaaS environment, ensuring seamless workflows for elite content creators worldwide. The role requires expertise in PyTorch, experience with MLOps tools like Weights & Biases and MLflow, and a deep understanding of audio-specific machine learning domains such as source separation and speech enhancement.
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