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Forward Deployed Engineer

AI summary of the role

Early-career builder role on a small hands-on team within Disney's Applied AI Acceleration practice, shipping AI-powered products end-to-end for internal business partners across Marketing, Finance, Parks, HR, and Studios.

What you’ll do

  • Build and ship AI-powered features from problem definition through production.
  • Work directly with stakeholders to understand business needs and gather feedback.
  • Own the user experience, including workflows, interfaces, automation, and human-in-the-loop decisions.
  • Use LLM APIs, prompt design, RAG, agents, and evaluation methods to solve problems.

What you’ll bring

  • Minimum 3 years shipping software products for real users, including at least 1 year shipping AI-powered features in production.
  • Experience with modern AI development tools: prompt design, agents, RAG, LLM APIs, evals.
  • Daily or frequent use of AI coding tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, or similar.
  • Ability to read and reason about code, debug with teammates, and work with data using SQL, APIs, or basic transformations.

Technologies

Claude · Cursor · LLM APIs · RAG · agents · prompt design · evals · golden sets · SQL · AI coding tools

About The Walt Disney Company

Turns Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, ESPN, and ABC IP into streaming, film/TV, sports, parks, cruises, products, and games.

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