Distinguished Engineer

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Fox, we build at the intersection of culture, content, and technology. We are home to some of the most recognized brands in media, including FOX News, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group. Our Emerging Technology team drives transformation across Fox by designing and deploying cutting-edge AI, automation, and machine learning capabilities that power how we build, create, and collaborate.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Fox Corporation is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to design and develop transformative AI solutions across our live, on-demand, and digital content experiences. You will work closely with engineering leads, data scientists, and product teams to build intelligent systems that personalize content, summarize video, power conversational agents, and generate real-time insights. You will help resolve architectural decisions, shape AI platform capabilities, and accelerate time-to-value through proof-of-concepts and reusable frameworks. The ideal candidate brings a deep background in AI/ML systems, a passion for GenAI, and a track record of bridging strategic architecture with hands-on execution. You will contribute across all phases of the development lifecycle, from early exploration to scalable deployment, partnering with teams to deliver thoughtful, high-impact solutions that advance the future of media across Fox Corp.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Architect and prototype AI-first solutions that enhance fan engagement and media discovery

• Evaluate and guide AI/ML design decisions across teams and engineering leaders

• Build, train and deploy models for understanding and processing multimodal content across video, text and audio within the realms of sports, news, and entertainment.

• Design workflows and pipelines for media enrichment, summarization, intelligent search, and personalization

• Provide AI/ML expertise to help build compelling products both for internal use and for direct-to-consumer applications.

• Be an integral part of a unit which acts as a catalyst, applying emerging technologies to reinvigorate existing groups and help them to improve effectiveness and impact.

• Develop scalable RAG architectures and GenAI capabilities for production use

• Build systems and prototypes using modern ML frameworks and distributed computing environments

• Drive alignment across product, engineering, and data science through technical leadership

• Contribute best practices, reusable patterns, and documentation to accelerate team velocity

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• Strong fundamental background in mathematics, statistics and computer science, with a specialism in computational linguistics, computer vision or similar.

• Understanding and practical experience of recent developments in generative AI including transformers, GANs, and diffusion models.

• Deep familiarity with building ML models using standard frameworks such as pytorch or tensorflow and deploying them in production environments.

• Knowledge of best practises for evaluation, fine-tuning, and continued pretraining of models to ensure good performance both on first deployment and thereafter.

• Significant experience in applying AI/ML solutions to practical problems with demanding deadlines.

• Experience of collaborative filtering models and multimodal models would be a plus.

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Learn more about Fox Tech at https://tech.fox.com 

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $296,000.00-350,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.

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