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We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.\nHere, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.\nIf you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!\nOverview and Responsibilities\nThe Applied Machine Learning Group is seeking a Software Engineer to build and scale systems that power\ncontent understanding, metadata enrichment, and personalization across Paramount's global content\ncatalog. In this role, you will work on the core infrastructure and internal tools that enable high-\nquality metadata ingestion and curation directly impacting content discovery,\nrecommendations, and user experience across Paramount's streaming portfolio.\nThis is a highly cross-functional role at the intersection of content, data, and machine learning,\npartnering closely with ML engineers, product teams, and data stakeholders to bring metadata-driven\nexperiences to life.\nThe ideal candidate will be:\n- Enthusiastic about spanning the full lifecycle of a content data system from ingest and\nenrichment through deployment, monitoring, and downstream delivery\n- Invested in going beyond moving data to understanding it; developing domain-level\nfamiliarity with the content catalog, and how data quality issues upstream affect systems\ndownstream\n- Committed to continuous improvement; takes ownership of feature implementation,\nplans for future maintainability\n- Skilled at partnering with Product to translate evolving content strategy into concrete\nengineering decisions; asking clarifying questions and iterating toward well-defined\nsolutions under ambiguity\n- Collaborative across engineering teams; working with upstream providers and\ndownstream consumers to define integration contracts, and ensuring the sequencing of\nchanges so that features ship cohesively\n- Eager to leverage AI agents in the software development process for understanding\ncode, troubleshooting, developing new features, and fixing issues\nResponsibilities Include:\nMetadata Ingestion & Enrichment\n- Design, build, and maintain backend services that support content understanding,\nmetadata modeling, and enrichment workflows\n- Contribute to systems that process and manage metadata for a large-scale, global\ncontent catalog\nBackend Services & Data Modeling\n- Maintain and expand the API layer and data models across two provider contexts\n(Paramount+ and PlutoTV) as the codebase converges toward a unified multi-tenant\narchitecture\n- Uphold engineering quality through test coverage, code reviews, and consistent\napplication of coding standards\nInternal Tooling & Curation\n- Support editorial curation workflows that feed the personalization experience, ensuring\ncurators have the tooling and data quality needed to make effective content decisions\nBasic Qualifications\n- 3+ years of professional software engineering experience\n- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience\n- Strong proficiency in a Python web API and ORM framework (Django/ORM/DRF\npreferred)\n- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure including managed databases, object storage, and\ncontainer orchestration (GCP, AWS, or Azure)\n- API design with backwards compatibility across multiple consumer teams\n- Relational data modeling for transactional systems\n- Experience building data engineering pipelines, including best practices like defensive\ncoding at ingestion boundaries, instrumentation to surface anomalies early, and\nawareness of data drift so that quality issues are caught before they propagate\ndownstream\nAdditional Qualifications\n- Django and Django REST Framework for production backend applications\n- Google Cloud Platform: Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Secret Manager, GKE\n- Google Cloud Pub/Sub subscriber/publisher patterns\n- Elasticsearch index management, full-text search, mapping updates\n- Experience building content metadata management systems\n- Exposure to personalization, recommendation systems, or ML-adjacent platforms\n- Experience working in event-driven architectures, designing systems around async\npipelines\nParamount Streaming, a division within Paramount Global, is the home to the company's direct-to-consumer services spanning free and paid in the form of Pluto TV and Paramount+. Pluto TV is the global leader in free ad-supported TV, delivering more than 1,400 global channels and an extensive library of streaming content, including live and original channels. Paramount+, digital subscription video-on-demand and live streaming service, combines live sports, breaking news, and A Mountain of Entertainment™. Paramount+ features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME®.\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION\nHiring Salary Range: $110,400.00 - 165,600.00.\nThe hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement. This position is bonus eligible.\nWhat We Offer:\nAttractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here.\nGenerous paid time off.\nComplimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.\nRobust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.\nSkydance is an equal opportunity employer (EOE)\nWe embrace 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. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.\nIf you are a qualified individual with a disability, you may request a reasonable accommodation during the job application and/or recruitment process. You can request reasonable accommodations by calling 212.846.5500 or by sending an email to . 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