Senior Software Engineer - AI Core Engineering
Company: The Walt Disney Company
Location: Glendale
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Posting Title: Senior Software Engineer - AI Core
Engineering Req ID: 10140845 Job Description: Disney Entertainment
and ESPN Product & Technology Technology is at the heart of
Disney’s past, present, and future. 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. The team marries technology with
creativity to build world-class products, enhance storytelling, and
drive velocity, innovation, and scalability for our businesses. We
are Storytellers and Innovators. Creators and Builders.
Entertainers and Engineers. We work with every part of The Walt
Disney Company’s media portfolio to advance the technological
foundation and consumer media touch points serving millions of
people around the world. Here are a few reasons why we think you’d
love working here: Building the future of Disney’s media: Our
Technologists are designing and building the products and platforms
that will power our media, advertising, and distribution businesses
for years to come. Reach, Scale & Impact: More than ever, Disney’s
technology and products serve as a signature doorway for fans'
connections with the company’s brands and stories. Disney. Hulu.
ESPN. ABC. ABC News…and many more. These products and brands – and
the unmatched stories, storytellers, and events they carry – matter
to millions of people globally. Innovation: We develop and
implement groundbreaking products and techniques that shape
industry norms, and solve complex and distinctive technical
problems. Ad Platforms is responsible for Disney’s industry-leading
ad technology and products – driving advertising performance,
innovation, and value in Disney’s sports, news, and entertainment
content, across all media platforms. Job Summary: We’re hiring a
Senior AI Engineer to build the AI core capabilities and tooling
that accelerate teams across Ad Technology. You will create shared
agents, initializers, registries, and reusable services and web
applications that make it fast, safe, and cost-effective for
engineering squads to adopt AI. Your work will emphasize common
design principles, guardrails, governance, observability, and
evaluation, so teams can deliver high-quality AI solutions
quickly—without reinventing the basics. This role blends backend
engineering, LLM orchestration, and developer enablement. You’ll
design APIs, SDKs, reusable agents, and web-based solutions that
standardize adoption, define patterns for multi-turn interactions,
and provide evaluation/traceability so teams can confidently scale
AI across Disney Ad Tech. Responsibilities and Duties of the Role:
AI Core Design & Principles Define and implement shared design
patterns for agents and services, including context management,
retrieval, safety, and evaluation. Establish reusable blueprints
that standardize how AI solutions are built across Ad Tech.
Reusable Agents & Tools Build production-ready agents,
initializers, and libraries for common use cases (summarization,
troubleshooting, semantic extraction). Develop high-quality APIs
and SDKs that simplify adoption of AI capabilities by other
engineering teams. Shared Services & Web Applications Deliver core
services for retrieval, memory, and orchestration, integrated with
enterprise and consumer facing systems. Create internal webapps and
dashboards that expose AI capabilities, evaluation metrics, and
adoption accelerators. Safety, Governance & Observability Embed
guardrails, compliance checks, and prompt safety into all shared
components. Implement model evaluation and observability frameworks
for quality, reliability, and cost monitoring at scale. Basic
Qualifications 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. Strong
collaboration and communication skills; able to work across infra,
data, security, and product teams. Bedrock or AI Foundry Preferred
Qualifications Experience building AI enablement tooling
(registries, agent initializers, internal frameworks) for
enterprise use. Familiarity with observability for AI systems:
tracing, latency and cost dashboards, drift detection. Knowledge of
AI gateway patterns (e.g., routing, usage throttling, model
fallback, quota enforcement). Exposure to multi-agent
orchestration, simulation frameworks, or synthetic data for
testing/eval. Understanding of enterprise governance: security,
compliance, audit, and policy enforcement in AI systems. Previous
experience in a developer enablement role (platform engineering,
frameworks, SDKs) where reusable components accelerated adoption
across large organizations. Required Education Bachelor’s degree in
Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field (Master’s
preferred), or equivalent experience. DISNEYTECH The hiring range
for this position in Los Angeles, California is $141,900 to 190,300
per year, Seattle, WA is $148,700 to $199,400, and San Francisco,
CA is $155,400 to $208,400 per year. The base pay actually offered
will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending
on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge,
skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or
long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the
compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical,
financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and
position offered. Job Posting Segment: Ad Platforms Job Posting
Primary Business: AP - Software Engineering Primary Job Posting
Category: Software Engineer Employment Type: Full time Primary
City, State, Region, Postal Code: Glendale, CA, USA Alternate City,
State, Region, Postal Code: USA - CA - Market St, USA - WA - 925
4th Ave Date Posted: 2026-01-22
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