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Lead Machine Learning Engineer

San Francisco, CA, USA💼 Full-time💰 $187,900–$187,900🗓 2026-07-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a team to ideate, develop, iterate on, and productionize personalization algorithms for Disney+ and Hulu recommendation stacks.

Role type

Senior IC Lead Machine Learning Engineer (RecSys/AI)

Builds

Core ranking algorithms, content/user understanding models, candidate retrieval, and post-ranking systems for streaming platforms.

Domain

Streaming media, Recommendation Systems, Generative AI/LLMs

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Recommendation systems modeling, AI/LLM techniques, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Databricks, Spark, SQL, experimental design, system architecture

Preferred skills

PhD in CS/Stats/Math, publications in ML/AI, reinforcement learning, large-scale content recommendation experience

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Databricks, Spark, SQL

Responsibilities

Drive technical vision and roadmap for personalization, design and run rigorous offline/online experiments, build production-worthy maintainable systems, collaborate across Engineering/Product/Data teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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