Senior Software Engineer - AI Core Engineering
The Walt Disney CompanyGlendale, California, United States • Seattle, Washington, United States • San Francisco, California, United States
Posted January 22, 2026
141900 - 190300 USD
Full Time
About the Company
Disney Entertainment and ESPN Product & Technology is a global organization of engineers, product developers, designers, technologists, data scientists, and more – all working to build and advance the technological backbone for Disney’s media business globally.
Job Description
We're hiring a Senior AI Engineer to build the AI core capabilities and tooling that accelerate teams across Ad Technology.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
- Bonus and/or long-term incentive units
