Machine Learning Engineer I
Warner Bros. Discovery is a leader in the entertainment industry, seeking a Machine Learning Engineer I to join their CNN Digital team. The role involves building and deploying machine learning systems that enhance personalization, search, recommendations, and content understanding for millions of users across CNN's digital platforms.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy full-lifecycle machine learning systems in Python for CNN digital products, including personalization, search, recommendations, and content understanding
- Develop and maintain production ML pipelines, including feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure
- Implement rigorous experimentation and A/B testing frameworks to validate model performance and product impact
- Optimize ML systems for real-time, web-scale performance serving millions of users
- Partner with platform and infrastructure teams to ensure ML systems meet reliability, scalability, and performance standards
- Contribute to code reviews, documentation, and team knowledge sharing
Skills
- Graduate degree (MS or PhD) in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field
- 1+ years of professional experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production environments
- Strong Python programming skills and experience with machine learning frameworks (e.g., scikit-learn or similar)
- Experience across the full ML lifecycle, including data preprocessing, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, and deployment
- Solid understanding of software engineering best practices, including version control, testing, and CI/CD
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working on large-scale consumer internet products (e.g., social, streaming, e-commerce, media)
- Hands-on experience with recommendation systems, search, NLP, or information retrieval
- Familiarity with data pipelines, feature stores, or embedding infrastructure
- Experience with experimentation platforms, A/B testing, and experimentation analysis
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Interest in generative AI applications and/or the media and news industry
Benefits
- Annual bonuses
- Short- and long-term incentives
- Program-specific awards
- Health insurance coverage
- An employee wellness program
- Life and disability insurance
- A retirement savings plan
- Paid holidays and sick time and vacation
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