Sr Staff R&D Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyCalifornia, United States
Posted October 22, 2025
206400 - 276700 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. Our mission is to entertain, inform and inspire people around the globe through the power of unparalleled storytelling, reflecting the iconic brands, creative minds and innovative technologies that make us the world’s premier entertainment company.
Job Description
We are seeking a Sr Staff R&D Engineer to lead the development of transformative audio intelligence technologies for global media production. The role involves architecting, building, and optimizing cutting-edge machine learning systems at scale, and contributing to technical direction, collaboration across product and engineering, and delivering production-ready solutions.
Requirements
- MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math, or a related field with a focus on AI/ML and mult-imodal signal processing
- 5 years of professional experience in applied ML, with a deep focus on audio-centric AI/ML research and deployment
- Expertise in building and scaling models using PyTorch
- Demonstrated experience developing generative models such as VAE, GAN, diffusion models, or neural vocoders
- Deep understanding of audio-specific ML domains, including source separation, speech enhancement, music processing, and cross-modal tasks
- Experience with MLOps tooling, Docker-based containerization, and scalable infrastructure for distributed training
Benefits
- Medical, financial, and/or other benefits