✦ Luna Orbit — AI & Machine Learning

Lead Data Scientist, Content Intelligence

at Walt Disney

📍 Glendale, United States Onsite 💰 $155K – $208K USD / year Posted April 04, 2026
Apply Now → ← Browse All Jobs

Position Details

Salary $155K – $208K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years 7+ years
Education Bachelor's in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
Category AI & Machine Learning

About this role

Senior Lead Data Scientist for Content Intelligence, building AI/ML solutions to understand media and enable rapid experimentation and production deployment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams
  • Conceptualize AI/ML solutions
  • Develop evaluation metrics
  • Bridge experimentation and production
  • Establish best practices

Technical Overview

Hands-on ML role with deep learning, LLMs, PEFT (LoRA/QLoRA), vector embeddings; cloud deployment (SageMaker/Bedrock/AWS) and data science tooling (Python, PyTorch, Databricks).

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior data scientist with 7+ years of experience in AI/ML, deep learning, and production ML systems; expert in PyTorch, LLM prompting, and PEFT techniques, with media/entertainment domain interest.

Must-Have Skills

Bachelor's in Computer ScienceData Scienceor related fieldAt least 7 years of relevant industry experience in data scienceProficient in PythonExperience with PyTorch or major DL frameworkExperience with LLM prompting and fine-tuningCloud platforms experience (AWS S3BedrockSageMaker or Databricks)

Nice-to-Have Skills

MS or PhD in CS/Data ScienceExperience in media/entertainment techVLM/LLM model distillationPEFT techniquesGenerative AI for media understanding

Tools & Platforms

AWS S3BedrockEC2SageMakerDatabricks

Required Skills

Bachelor's in CS/DS7+ years data sciencePythonPyTorchLLM promptingfine-tuningPEFTcloud platforms

Hard Skills

PythonPandasNumPyscikit-learnPyTorchLLM promptingfine-tuningLoRAQLoRAprompt engineeringvector embeddingsSageMakerAmazon Web ServicesBedrockDatabricksAWS S3QuantizationPEFTPyTorch

Soft Skills

strong communicationcross-functional collaborationpresentationsystems thinking

Industry & Role

Industry Media
Job Function Develop and deploy AI/ML techniques to understand media content at scale
Role Subtype ML Engineer
Tech Domains Python, PyTorch, Amazon Web Services, SageMaker, Bedrock, Databricks, LLM prompting, LoRA, Vector embeddings, Quantization

Keywords for Your Resume

Lead Data ScientistContent Platforms & OperationsDisneyAI/MLprompt engineeringPEFTLoRAQLoRALLM promptingVector embeddingsGANsproductioninferencePyTorchSageMakerBedrockAmazon Web ServicesDatabricksPythonPandasNumPyscikit-learnVLMevaluation metricslead data scientistllm promptingpeftloraqLoRApytorchsagemakerbedrockaws s3

Deal Breakers

Bachelor's degree required, 7+ years of relevant experience, Hands-on DL framework experience (PyTorch)

Apply for this Position →

Get matched to jobs like this

Luna finds roles that fit your skills and career goals — no endless scrolling required.

Create a Free Profile