💼 Full-Time Position

Sr Staff R&D Engineer

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The Walt Disney Company
📍 Nicasio, CA, United States
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Location
Nicasio, United States
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Posted
June 09, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

The Skywalker Sound Development Group is seeking a highly accomplished **Sr Staff R&D Engineer (AI/ML)** to lead the development of transformative audio intelligence technologies for global media production. This senior-level role is central to advancing our next-generation soundtrack platform, with a focus on speech processing, style transfer, upmixing, source separation, and generative audio synthesis.

You will architect, build, and optimize cutting-edge machine learning systems at scale—leveraging foundational models, neural vocoders, latent diffusion models, and advanced retraining workflows. As a core member of our applied R&D team, you will contribute to technical direction, collaborate across product and engineering, and deliver production-ready solutions that integrate seamlessly into creative and operational workflows for elite content creators worldwide.

_This role is considered Hybrid, which means the employee will work onsite in our Nicasio, CA office an...