Staff Machine Learning Engineer, Warner Bros Discovery
$145.6-270.4k
Entertainment company
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Entertainment company
1001+ employees
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$145.6-270.4k
1001+ employees
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
- 8+ years of industry experience
- Deep practical knowledge of ML systems, with information retrieval and ranking algorithms is required, experience with NLP techniques is a plus
- Knowledge of large-scale distributed application architecture, design, implementation and performance tuning
- Good practical knowledge in modern machine learning lifecycle
- 8+ years of programming experience using Python/Java with ability to rapidly prototype ideas and refine towards production
- Ability to drive roadmap and directions of scalable production quality systems end-to-end
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, be comfortable presenting to large audiences
- Advanced degree (M.S., or Ph.D.), or equivalent industry experience in software engineering, computer science, machine learning or related fields
- Experience with one of the cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure
- Experience with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc
What the job involves
- We are looking for a passionate Machine Learning Engineer to build and scale the DTC personalization systems and services for our new global streaming app, Max, as well as any future DTC streaming apps
- You will be in the unique role of acting as a leader who can work seamlessly with modeling and engineering teams and can build and contribute to architecting a system that serves millions of users worldwide
- As an engineering leader, you are excited about working in an environment that fosters innovation via prototyping, development, experimentation and productionization
- You will bring the right balance between rapid feature iteration and building a common set of platforms and tools to move quickly in the future
- Build and scale a recommendation system that powers a state of the art search & personalization experience to users across Max, HBO, Discovery+ and other WBD offerings
- Collaborate with other ML/Ops engineers to develop and improve core components, infrastructure and architecture to train, deploy and serve models at scale
- Collaborate with data scientists, engineers, product teams and other key stakeholders and drive ML projects from conception to completion
- Use and build upon open-source cloud computing technologies
- Participate and support engineering leaders in strategic planning and demonstrate good judgment in setting and delivering against strategic goals for the team
- Mentor, influence engineers across organizations and lead by example with high quality examples of your work at the organization level
- 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
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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
David Zaslav
(CEO, not founder)Spent 17 years at NBCUniversal including as President of NBC Cable LLC and NBC Media LLC.
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