Senior Staff Data Engineer

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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

testing

Here are some of the key challenges the team will tackle in next couple of quarters :

summaries from multiple domains, which can be leveraged in consumer

experiences along with embedding generation and classification.

context in our personalized recommendations model such as geolocation, time of

day and time of year

for CNN streaming content search.

online ranking of recommendations

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, platform engineers and product teams to discover data

needs, build reliable data pipelines and deliver high-quality data products that empower

and accelerate the team.

What you’ll do

storage and inference.

inference.

and interfaces.

team initiatives.

The Essentials

modeled impacts what is possible

fast-moving environment.

The Nice to Haves

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 you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and / or recruitment process, please visit our

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