Senior Software Engineer - Gen AI MSC Team Bangalore

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Senior Software Engineer – Gen AI, MSC Team, Bangalore

About Warner Bros. Discovery

Warner Bros. Discovery, a premier global media and entertainment company, offers audiences the worlds most differentiated and complete portfolio of content, brands and franchises across television, film, streaming and gaming. The new company combines Warner Media’s premium entertainment, sports and news assets with Discoverys leading non-fiction and international entertainment and sports businesses.

For more information, please visit www.wbd.com

Meet Our Team

The Content Systems Engineering team builds the applications and services that power Warner Bros Discovery’s content supply chain. Our applications cover the entire breadth of the media supply chain, from idea to distribution. We have a robust global community of thousands of internal Warner Bros Discovery users who rely on our apps every day to get television produced, on the air, and onto Discovery+.

We’re looking for a developer who can be an integral part of our new development team in Warner Bros Discovery’s Bangalore office. We need a full stack developer who’s comfortable building, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs for enterprise solutions. Our current service tier is a blend of Java and Node.js services. We’re transitioning our older, monolithic Dojo-based SPA to a micro-front-end featuring reusable components and loosely-coupled micro-apps. As a full-stack developer you’d be working alongside our current development team that features other full-stack developers along with some specialists dedicated to either front-end or back-end layers. No need to be an expert in everything, but we need you to be comfortable in your skills in each layer to contribute to it. Requirements and designs don’t deliver set in stone, so we would like you to be able to think on your feet and fill in the blanks when necessary.

Roles & Responsibilities

We are seeking a hands-on GenAI Engineer to join our team and lead the design and implementation of Generative AI-powered prototypes across Media supply chain.

• The role will focus on building out machine learning solutions for WBD’s content and Ad platform. Primary focus will be on unlocking machine learning opportunities in media supply chain, captioning services, ad conditioning, metadata extraction and building foundational machine learning training and inference pipelines at scale.
• You will lead by example and define the best practices, will set high standards for the entire team and for the rest of the organization. You have a successful track record for ambitious projects across cross-functional teams. You are passionate and results oriented. You strive for technical excellence and are very hands-on. Your co-workers love working with you. You have built respect in your career through concrete accomplishments.
• Build cutting-edge capabilities utilizing machine learning and data science (e.g., large language models, computer vision models, advanced ad & content targeting, etc.)
• Lead design and development of machine learning systems.
• Design and implement prompt-based applications using LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Claude, Mistral).
• Build pipelines for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) using tools like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or Haystack.
• Integrate LLMs with external APIs, structured databases, and unstructured content (PDFs, contracts, metadata).
• Use embedding models and vector stores (e.g., Pinecone, Weaviate, FAISS) for semantic search.
• Develop reusable modules for key initiatives like Cairo, Rights Summarization, Deal Assist, and Contract QA automation.
• Collaborate with TPMs, domain SMEs, and software engineers to define and implement POCs.
• Monitor and evaluate GenAI system outputs for factual accuracy and hallucination risk.
  
  

What To Bring

• 5-8 years of experience designing, building AI/ML or GenAI projects.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or Golang.
• Good understanding of Distributed systems, design and architecture.
• Familiarity with LLM APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, HuggingFace Transformers).
• Proficiency in operating machine learning solutions at scale, covering the end-to-end ML workflow.
• Experience with Deep Learning, NLP, LLMs, Reinforcement Learning, Causal Inference. good knowledge of ML tools and frameworks (TensorFlow, Keras, pyTorch, scikit-learn, Spark,...).
• Exposure to RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone, Weaviate), and embedding techniques.
• Experience with GenAI frameworks like LangChain, LlamaIndex, or PromptLayer.
• Familiarity with real-world ML systems (configuration, data collection, data verification, feature extraction, resource and process management, analytics, training, serving, validation, experimentation, monitoring).
• Experience with offline experimentation and A/B testing.
• Understanding of batch and streaming data processing techniques.
• Knowledge of AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of media supply chain workflows—including content ingestion, metadata, rights, and distribution.Masters/ Bachealors in Computer Science or related discipline.
  
  

What We Offer

• A Great Place to work
• Equal opportunity employer
• Fast track growth opportunities
  
  

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.

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