Warner Bros. is hiring: Staff Machine Learning Engineer- Video AI/Computer Visio

Machine Learning Expert

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Roles & Responsibilities

Architect, build and scale computer vision and multimodal capabilities to support video understanding use-cases within WBD

Work closely with Principal Engineers on defining technical vision and strategy for the platform, as well as on prioritizing capabilities alongside with Product team

Develop or fine-tune models for fine grained scene segmentation, annotation, summarization, metadata generation, and selection from videos

Use open-source and off-the-shelf gen AI models as the starting point for model fine-tuning and improvements, maximizing precision and recall on WBD content and objectives

Help build a culture of innovation and engineering excellence by providing guidance to a team of machine learning engineers

Collaborate with adjacent engineering teams to ensure tight integrations to production pipelines in media supply chain and video streaming applications

Evaluate and work with vendors to ensure product deliverables and engineering standards are met, when applicable

Be a thought leader and engineering and operational excellence champion

Demonstrate and foster a culture of growth mindset and curiosity for keeping up with the evolving state of the art and be nimble to rapidly adapt to new models and architectures

Mentor, influence engineers across organizations and lead by example with high quality work at the organization level

What to Bring

7+ years of coding experience in the industry (C/C++, Java, Go, Python)

5+ years of applied machine learning experience to CV tasks

Masters/PhD degree required

Excellent familiarity with state-of-the-art large-language-models, image and video models and their applications to multi modal tasks

Ability to implement algorithms from state-of-the-art papers in the domain of computer vision (in particular, video processing)

Excellent architecture and design skills applied to Machine Learning products

Experience with PyTorch and/or TensorFlow

Very strong foundations in Computer Science, Data Structures and Algorithms

Ability to transfer high level, abstract and ambiguous tasks into a set of clear technical requirements

Ability to understand and embrace complex business interest and operations, and communicate the impact of AI in less technical terms with stakeholders

Systematic and pragmatic engineer, balancing business sense of urgency with engineering excellence

Ability to assess different solutions for the same problem with key metrics, trade-offs and be able to make an informed decision