Senior Staff Data Engineer
Warner Bros. DiscoveryAbout the role
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 selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.
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About the Team:With deep domain expertise, advanced technical capabilities, and a proven track record of
successful collaborations, the AI Enablement & Machine Learning team at CNN is
accelerating our digital transformation through strategic applications of machine learning
and AI technologies. Our current products include popular, related and personalized
content recommendations, contextual ad targeting, and site search-serving millions of
CNN users via CNN web and mobile apps. Within the next quarter, we will be launching
summarization and classification features with chat to follow early next year.
We have a variety of specializations and collaborate closely, enhancing our platform and
adding to the suite of machine learning features running on it.
• Machine learning engineers (MLEs) build models and features
• Data engineers fulfill the availability and latency requirements provided by MLEs
• Some software engineers partner with MLEs to operationalize and expose models
and features
• Other software engineers focus on our ML platform and tooling, including A/B
testing
Here are some of the key challenges the team will tackle in next couple of quarters:
• Content Summaries: Support testing and adoption of various types of content
summaries from multiple domains, which can be leveraged in consumer
experiences along with embedding generation and classification.
• Two-Tower Experimentation: Explore options for incorporating additional user
context in our personalized recommendations model such as geolocation, time of
day and time of year
• All Access Search: Partner with teams across CNN to design and build a roadmap
for CNN streaming content search.
• Bandit Foundation: Enhance data access and begin experimenting with bandits for
online ranking of recommendations
• Optimize Site Performance: Dynamically deliver personalized content alongside
cached assets, improving load times and enhancing user experience with features
like page-level deduplication
About the Job
As a Senior Staff Data Engineer, you will work across teams to design, build and operate
the data foundations that power ML training, feature computation and real-time inference
for our Machine Learning team.
You will partner with ML engineers,
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