Job Posting Title:

Machine Learning Engineer Intern, Seattle, Summer 2026

Req ID:

10143620

Job Description:

About the Role & Program

The Walt Disney Company has spent 100 years immersing audiences in new and stunning experiences using groundbreaking technology. Your work as a Disney intern would inspire innovation and bring fresh perspectives to impact guests and consumers worldwide.

At Disney, we’re storytellers. We make the impossible possible. The Walt Disney Company is a world-class entertainment and technological leader. Walt’s passion was to continuously envision new ways to move audiences around the world—a passion that remains our touchstone in an enterprise that stretches from theme parks, resorts and a cruise line to sports, news, movies and a variety of other businesses. Uniting each endeavor is a commitment to creating and delivering unforgettable experiences — and we’re constantly looking for new ways to enhance these exciting experiences.

The Enterprise Technology mission is to deliver technology solutions that align to business strategies while enabling enterprise efficiency and promoting cross-company collaborative innovation. The Enterprise Technology organization drives competitive advantage by enhancing our consumer experiences, enabling business growth, and advancing operational excellence. Our team serves all domestic and international businesses across The Walt Disney Company, including Disney Studios, Walt Disney Parks & Resorts, ESPN, ABC, Marvel Studios, and Pixar.

At Disney Corporate you can see how the businesses behind the Company’s powerful brands come together to create the most innovative, far-reaching and admired entertainment company in the world. As a member of a corporate team, you’ll work with world-class leaders driving the strategies that keep The Walt Disney Company at the leading edge of entertainment. See and be seen by other innovative thinkers as you enable the greatest storytellers in the world to create memories for millions of families around the globe.

This internship role will work with other Machine Learning Engineers to help design and build machine learning solutions—including Large Language Model (LLM) agents—across our global brands. You’ll collaborate with a talented team to deploy ML models, support LLM integration, develop intelligent agents, and evaluate model performance.

The intern will report to the Senior Manager for AI/ML and Data Engineering.

The dates of this internship are May/June through August/September.

What You Will Do

• Work alongside DE, Product and ML team to understand requirements and build standards.

• Develop, fine-tune, and integrate LLM agents and other intelligent agents with guidance from senior engineers.

• Lead or contribute to the development of agents for a variety of use cases within Disney.

• Evaluate LLMs and agents using established metrics and user feedback, iterating based on results.

• Prepare and preprocess data for ML model training and evaluation.

• Maintain ML/LLM pipelines and troubleshoot technical issues.

• Document work and present results to technical and non-technical teams.

• Stay up to date with trends in ML, LLM, and agent technology.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Solid Python programming and experience with ML libraries (scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy).

• Good understanding of Language Models such as Google Gemini, OpenAI GPT, Nova, Mistral etc.

• Familiarity with deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow) and LLM libraries (e.g., Hugging Face Transformers).

• Understanding of LLM evaluation techniques and prompt engineering basics.

• Effective problem-solving and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

• Experience building UI, Chatbots.

• Familiarity with cloud ML platforms and version control (Git).

• Knowledge of SQL or handling large datasets.

• Experience building RAG applications using frameworks like langchain, langGraph, etc.

• Understands multi-agentic workflows in context for building LLM applications.

Education

Currently enrolled as a junior or senior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or other STEM related field at an accredited college or university.

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

Candidates for this opportunity MUST meet all the below requirements:

• Be enrolled in an accredited college/university taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program OR currently participating in a Disney College Program or Disney Internship

• Current Disney Interns, College, International, or Culinary Program Participants: You may only work for ONE consecutive year (12 months) in any combination of an internship and/or program.

• Be at least 18 years of age

• Possess unrestricted work authorization

Additional Information

• The approximate dates of this internship are May/June 2026 through August/September 2026

• Able to provide/have reliable transportation to/from work

• Fully available from Monday-Friday for the duration of the internship, 40 hours per week

The pay rate for this internship in Washington is $42 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

Job Posting Segment:

Enterprise Technology and Data

Job Posting Primary Business:

Cloud & Data Transformation Engineering

Primary Job Posting Category:

Technology Intern

Employment Type:

Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Seattle, WA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:

2026-04-07