Software Developer II (AI/ML Products)

About Warner Bros. Discovery

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands are the storytellers, the creators, the dreamers bringing characters to life. We offer career‑defining opportunities, carefully curated benefits, and tools to grow into your best self.

Your New Role

The AI Enablement C Machine Learning team at CNN is accelerating our digital transformation through strategic applications of machine learning and AI technologies. We build popular, related, and personalized content recommendations, contextual ad targeting, and site search‑serving millions of CNN users via web and mobile apps. In the next quarter we will launch summarization and classification features with chat.

Team Challenges

Content Summaries:

• Support testing and adoption of various content summary types across domains, leveraging embedding generation and classification.

Two-Tower Experimentation:

• Explore options for incorporating user context (geolocation, time of day, time of year) into personalized recommendation models.

All Access Search:

• Partner with teams across CNN to design and build a roadmap for CNN streaming content search.

Bandit Foundation:

• Enhance data access and begin experimenting with bandits for online ranking of recommendations.

Optimize Site Performance:

• Dynamically deliver personalized content alongside cached assets, improving load times and user experience with feature like page-level deduplication.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Collaborate with other engineers across the team.
• Promote an inclusive and supportive engineering culture.
• Solve business problems with simple, straightforward solutions.
• Strive for operational excellence—building highly available, low latency, efficient software.
• Build subject matter expertise related to multiple production systems.
• Communicate effectively through updates, requests for support, demos, and technical documentation.
• Author, test, review, and optimize production‑quality code following best practices for IaC, version control, and continuous delivery.
• Be passionate about software engineering with a strong sense of responsibility for the code you and your team write.
• Embrace failure as a learning opportunity—choose the best solutions that meet business goals, moving autonomously from proof‑of‑concept to production release.

Qualifications & Experience

• Related professional or industry experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Proficiency in Python and one or more of: Golang, Java, C++, or similar object‑oriented language.

Nice to Haves

• Expertise in backend engineering with distributed systems and data‑intensive applications at web scale.
• Prior experience working on a machine learning team.

Additional Information & Company Transition

On June 9, 2025 Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid‑2026. If hired, your employment may transition to Discovery Global after the separation.

Compensation

Pay Range: $100,000.00 – $150,000.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards.

Benefits

• health insurance
• employee wellness program
• life insurance
• disability insurance
• retirement savings plan
• paid holidays
• sick time
• vacation

Equal Opportunity Employment

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. As an equal opportunity employer, we 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, 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 accommodations, visit our accessibility page for instructions on submitting your request.