Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Video AI - Warner Bros. Discovery : Job Details

Director, Machine Learning Engineering - Video AI

Warner Bros. Discovery

Job Location : New York,NY, USA

Posted on : 2025-08-05T01:17:21Z

Job Description :

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we're not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD's vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what's next…

From brilliant creatives to technology trailblazers across the globe, WBD offers career-defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best self. Here you are supported, celebrated, and can thrive.

What We Do

At WBD, the video AI team comprises computer vision engineers, ML engineers, and software engineers. We have an extraordinary catalog of content spanning 100 years of movies and TV shows. In this role, you will lead the video AI team and drive key initiatives that connect our unparalleled content with global audiences through innovative (product and marketing) experiences powered by video understanding.

What You'll Do

  • Develop and communicate a robust technical vision and strategy for applications based on video and image understanding.
  • Define and track key performance indicators and evaluation protocols to measure product and technical success for video understanding tasks and applications.
  • Work cross-functionally with product management, engineering, and business stakeholders.
  • Guide the development of high-impact end-to-end machine learning systems for media processing.
  • Promote and role-model best practices in data science and engineering throughout the organization.
  • Hire and mentor engineers and researchers on the team and raise the bar for ML excellence across the organization.
  • Stay up to date with state-of-the-art developments in the research community and contribute back by writing/publishing blogs, articles, or papers in conferences.

    • What You'll Need

  • M.S or PhD in Computer Science or related field with specialization in machine learning and/or computer vision.
  • 10+ years of building CV/ML products for consumer and/or enterprise applications.
  • 4+ years of managing high-performance teams.
  • Proven leadership skills, such as aligning complex technical decisions across teams, mentoring, coordinating cross-functional relationships with non-technical stakeholders, managing expectations, and navigating competing priorities.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively advocate technical solutions to business audiences.
  • Self-motivated, growth-oriented, and driven to pursue excellence across teams.
  • Deep knowledge of computer vision and audio processing techniques.
  • Experience with multimodal learning for video understanding, vision-language models, diffusion models, and agentic workflows.
  • Familiarity with statistics and general machine learning techniques is strongly preferred.
  • Production experience implementing, maintaining, and improving machine learning pipelines for media processing and models at scale in Python, Java, Scala, or similar languages using frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch.

    • How We Get Things Done…

    This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day-to-day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

    Championing Inclusion at WBD

    Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by law.

    If you're a qualified candidate with a disability and require adjustments or accommodations during the application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

    In compliance with local law, we disclose the compensation range for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries vary based on factors like market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and performance. The pay range is $234,500 - $435,500 annually. Other rewards include bonuses, incentives, and awards. We also offer benefits such as health insurance, wellness programs, life and disability insurance, retirement plans, paid holidays, sick leave, and vacation.

    If you have an arrest or conviction record, please know that your application will be considered in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act.

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