Staff Software Engineer Python, Computer Vision

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Staff Software Engineer Video AI Team Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery:

Warner Bros. Discovery a premier global media and entertainment company offers audiences the worlds most differentiated and complete portfolio of content brands and franchises across television film streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Medias premium entertainment sports and news assets with Discoverys leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

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Meet Our Team:

When we say the stuff dreams are made of were not just referring to the world of wizards dragons and superheroes or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBDs 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 whats 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.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Were looking for a Staff Software Engineer for our Video AI Team in Bangalore to join the AI/ML organization focusing on applications of AI to video. The team supports capabilities such as scene segmentation video annotation clip generation metadata enrichment video understanding closed captions translations subtitles and content classification to help make WBD content truly global.

In this role you will help build a robust scalable platform that enables the training deployment and observability of machine learning models. You will drive platform architecture lead critical components and work across teams to establish engineering excellence in the ML infrastructure layer.

• Design and lead the development of core components of the machine learning platform with a focus on scalability reliability and cloud-agnostic principles.

• Build APIs and microservices that power end-to-end machine learning workflows including model deployment orchestration model registry integration and observability.

• Architect and deploy AI/ML pipelines for video ingestion preprocessing annotation training evaluation serving monitoring and continuous improvement.

• Develop cloud-native AI systems on Google Cloud Platform using Vertex AI Vertex AI Pipelines Vertex AI Endpoints GKE Cloud Run BigQuery Cloud Storage Pub/Sub and related services.

• Own cloud infrastructure and CI/CD automation using Infrastructure-as-Code principles with hands-on implementation using Terraform Kubernetes Docker and deployment automation tools.

• Evaluate fine-tune train optimize and deploy open-source Computer Vision and Multimodal AI models and Vision Transformers for production use cases.

• Design and operationalize Deep Learning Computer Vision Generative AI LLM VLM and RAG-based capabilities for video understanding and content intelligence workflows.

• Collaborate with content protection and security teams to ensure robust access controls secure model/data access patterns and compliance-aligned platform practices.

• Champion engineering excellence through well-tested code clear documentation design reviews code reviews and continuous improvement of development and deployment practices.

• Establish and enforce best practices in testing code quality monitoring observability incident readiness and reliability for ML pipeline components.

• Work closely with AI engineers data scientists product managers and platform teams to support evolving use cases such as scene segmentation video annotation clip generation metadata enrichment recommendations and media workflows.

• Mentor engineers influence architecture across teams and help set long-term technical direction for Video AI platform capabilities.
  

What to Bring

• 912 years of software engineering experience building scalable backend systems distributed services and cloud-native platforms.

• Deep hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as GCP with the ability to design cloud-agnostic deployment patterns.

• Strong hands-on experience with GCP and Vertex AI platforms including Vertex AI Pipelines Model Registry Endpoints GKE Cloud Run BigQuery Cloud Storage Pub/Sub Cloud Monitoring and Cloud Logging.

• Experience working with production deployment of machine learning systems including model training evaluation serving monitoring rollback and lifecycle management.

• Strong knowledge of Deep Learning Computer Vision and Generative AI models including practical experience with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch TensorFlow and Hugging Face ecosystem.

• Hands-on experience evaluating fine-tuning training and deploying open-source Computer Vision and Multimodal AI models for production use cases including model optimization transfer learning distributed training and performance benchmarking.

• Excellent proficiency in Python with strong software design API design and architecture skills.

• Strong experience with Terraform Kubernetes Docker containerized deployments CI/CD workflows and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.

• Experience building APIs microservices event-driven systems and asynchronous processing patterns for large-scale ML workflows.

• Experience in building and maintaining observability stacks such as Prometheus Grafana distributed tracing and cloud-native monitoring tools.

• Familiarity with model serving technologies such as Triton TorchServe vLLM or similar platforms is preferred.

• Experience with RAG architectures LLM/VLM deployment vector databases prompt engineering and GPU-based inference systems is preferred.

• Familiarity with Agile development practices strong operational ownership and a mindset for reliability scalability maintainability and cost optimization.

• Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams and setting engineering standards at scale through technical leadership mentorship and documentation.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science AI Machine Learning Engineering or a related field; equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

What We Offer:

• A Great Place to work.

• Equal opportunity employer

• Fast track growth opportunities

How We Get Things Done

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