The Walt Disney Company→
Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Seattle,… at The Walt… · Seattle
InternshipHybridFull-timeSeattle, WA$87k–$87k/yr
Skills
python programmingmachine learning librariesscikit-learnpandasnumpylanguage modelsgoogle geminiopenai gptnovamistraldeep learning frameworkspytorchtensorflowllm librarieshugging face transformersllm evaluation techniquesprompt engineering
Job Description
Summary: The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader that has spent 100 years immersing audiences in new experiences. They are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer Intern to collaborate with a talented team in designing and building machine learning solutions, including Large Language Model agents, across their global brands.
Responsibilities:
- Work alongside DE, Product and ML team to understand requirements and build standards
- Develop, fine-tune, and integrate LLM agents and other intelligent agents with guidance from senior engineers
- Lead or contribute to the development of agents for a variety of use cases within Disney
- Evaluate LLMs and agents using established metrics and user feedback, iterating based on results
- Prepare and preprocess data for ML model training and evaluation
- Maintain ML/LLM pipelines and troubleshoot technical issues
- Document work and present results to technical and non-technical teams
- Stay up to date with trends in ML, LLM, and agent technology
Required Qualifications:
- Solid Python programming and experience with ML libraries (scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy)
- Good understanding of Language Models such as Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT, Nova, Mistral etc
- Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and LLM libraries (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers)
- Understanding of LLM evaluation techniques and prompt engineering basics
- Effective problem-solving and communication skills
- Currently enrolled as a junior or senior pursuing a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other STEM related field at an accredited college or university
- Be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship
- Be at least 18 years of age
- Possess unrestricted work authorization
- Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work
- Fully available from Monday-Friday for the duration of the internship, 40 hours per week
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience building UI, Chatbots
- Familiarity with cloud ML platforms and version control (Git)
- Knowledge of SQL or handling large datasets
- Experience building RAG applications using frameworks like langchain, langGraph, etc
- Understands multi-agentic workflows in context for building LLM applications
Required Skills: Python programming, Machine learning libraries, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Language Models, Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT, Nova, Mistral, Deep learning frameworks, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM libraries, Hugging Face Transformers, LLM evaluation techniques, Prompt engineering
Internship Start Date: Start in 2026 Summer
Benefits: Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits.
Benefits
Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits.