Principal Engineer, AI

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $190k - $230k / year

⏰ Full Time

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NBCUniversal

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2004

📱 Media

Media • Entertainment

NBCUniversal is a leading global media and entertainment company known for creating and distributing content across a variety of platforms. With over 100 years of experience, it is a part of Comcast and encompasses brands like Peacock, NBC Sports, and many others to educate, entertain, and empower audiences around the world. The company is involved in television broadcasting, film production, and theme parks, and is also recognized for its initiatives in technology and corporate social responsibility. NBCUniversal is committed to innovation and social impact, making it a vibrant workplace for media and tech professionals.

📋 Description

• Collaborate and advise on next-generation AI-assisted agentic workflows strategy alongside product owners, developers and creatives. • Design and own the architecture for AI-powered frameworks and automation across the entire Studio pipeline and platforms. • Define the end-to-end architecture for ingestion, processing, and routing of operational telemetry (metrics, logs, traces). • Integrate solutions with popular industry DCC tools. • Prototype solutions for high-friction tasks: asset tagging, scene prep, render queue management, shot setup, and versioning. • Define technical standards and integration patterns for AI tooling across departments and shows. • Evaluate and select AI frameworks, foundation models, and automation technologies for creative production and operational stability. • Build and maintain a library of reusable AI components and automation patterns. • Partner with platform, systems and security teams to monitor model drift, system latency, and system security. • Write, test, and deploy production-ready tools that run reliably inside active show pipelines. • Develop reference implementations that set the canonical pattern for future pipeline AI work. • Partner with engineers and TDs to fold automation into existing artist-facing toolsets. • Maintain and iterate on deployed tools based on artist feedback and production data. • Drive adoption across both technical and creative departments so tools are understood, trusted, and used. • Create lightweight training and documentation for artists and engineers. • Establish metrics for automation impact and report results to studio leadership on a regular cadence. • Champion a culture of continuous improvement and surface new automation opportunities as workflows evolve.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field • 10+ years building production systems, with 2+ years building AI/ML systems for real workflows • Hands-on experience deploying enterprise software in AI, data, or integration environments • Expertise with containerization, orchestration, Python, TypeScript, React, and AI frameworks such as LangGraph, Spring AI and MCP • Deep understanding of LLM model integration and tuning • Experience with designing automation that reduces manual work in complex, multi-stakeholder environments • Proven ability to influence senior engineers without authority and to be the person others learn from • History of building and supporting durable artifacts: frameworks, templates, training, open source that extend to other projects • Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate fluently between artists, production management, and engineers • Genuine passion for animation, storytelling, or creative production.

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental and vision insurance • 401(k) • paid leave • tuition reimbursement • a variety of other discounts and perks