Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Warner Bros Discovery

ML Platform

$132.3-245.7k

Python
Java
Go
Senior and Expert level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Kearny Street, CA or Hudson Yards, NY

Warner Bros Discovery

Entertainment company

Job no longer available

Warner Bros Discovery

Entertainment company

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentEntertainmentMedia

Job no longer available

$132.3-245.7k

Python
Java
Go
Senior and Expert level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

Office located in Kearny Street, CA or Hudson Yards, NY

1001+ employees

B2CB2BPublishingContentEntertainmentMedia

Company mission

To take the world’s greatest possibilities and make them a reality - creating impact, inspiring imagination, and building connections.

Role

Who you are

  • You are excited about working in a fast-moving environment that fosters engineering and operational excellence with continuous development, deployment, experimentation, quality assurance, and collaboration
  • You will bring an obsession with our customers along with skills for rapid feature iteration

What the job involves

  • We are looking for a passionate Senior Machine Learning engineer to support, build and scale the personalization and search platforms for the global streaming app Max as well as ongoing and future streaming initiatives
  • In your role, you will be working in a team of passionate machine engineers and applied researchers contributing to a system that serves 100+ million users worldwide
  • Contribute to building and scaling a recommendation system that powers a state-of-the-art personalization experience to users across Max, Discovery+ and other WBD offerings
  • Contribute on building machine learning systems and operations for personalization
  • Collaborate with applied data science engineers to improve quality, stability, resilience of search and personalization platforms
  • Drive observability, scalability, cost-optimization, and performance tuning and other improvements to recommendations services and models
  • Collaborate with platform, content, user data and product partners as Max expands to new markets around the globe
  • Author, test, review, and optimize production-level code in Java, Go and Python while executing best practices in version control and code integration
  • Motivate, inspire and create a culture of experimentation and data-driven innovation while constantly striving to be an advocate for doing what is right for our customers
  • Contribute technical documentation to support knowledge transfer and sharing
  • Troubleshoot issues in recommendation systems as front-line support

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Insights

-1% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Our take

Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) is an entertainment company formed from the 2022 merger of Warner Bros and Discovery. It is a leader in the creation, production, distribution, licensing, and marketing of content, with Warner Bros alone boasting a huge library – more than 100,000 hours of programming – before the companies were joined. WBD’s portfolio includes Discovery Channel, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Discovery+, HBO Max, and franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter”.

Both of the company’s previous businesses have operated throughout the digitisation of the media space. David Zaslav, CEO of WBD, headed Discovery during its expansion into digital media, to make it a “content company” over a “cable company”. The recent focus for Warner Bros has been on next-gen distribution efforts, expanding the availability of its content across platforms and devices to reach the modern viewer. The new company has plans to migrate to one tech stack, which will require extensive retooling, as well as exploring cost-saving automation opportunities for its operations.

Since the merger, the new giant that is Warner Bros Discovery has had a shaky start, forcing the company to wind down operations and cut back on content, which included the very public scrapping of the “Batgirl” movie. However, it now seems the company may have been ahead of the curve, as a wider trend of cutbacks has been seen from peers in the space. This early move, combined with a hyper-focus on cash generation, seeks to establish WBD as an outperformer in an industry on the downturn.

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