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Software Engineering Intern, Morrisville, NC, Summer 2025

Job ID 10105231 Location Morrisville, North Carolina, United States Business Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology Date posted Feb. 21, 2025
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Job Summary:

About the Role and Program

The Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology (DE&ET) organization plays a central role in the future growth of The Walt Disney Company. Our team is responsible for worldwide linear and digital media distribution, design and development of all consumer-facing digital products, advertising technology, consumer data, and international broadcast operations.  Our employees are leading, creating, and innovating, making bold moves in unexpected directions that redefine not just what a media company does, but what it can do. With The Walt Disney Company, you can be part of media's evolution, helping us create what's next.

This internship role falls within the Core Media Technology (CMT) team in DE&ET’s Media Engineering organization. CMT is one of our Research and Advanced Development teams whose focus is in the domain of video and audio processing that drives enhancements into our video processing platform for live and on-demand video streaming delivery. Our work involves optimizing media encoding, introducing new media codecs, developing video quality and performance assessment frameworks and conducting innovative media research towards the development of future platform capabilities.

What You Will Do

Throughout this internship, you will have the opportunity to work collaboratively within the CMT team contributing to one or more of our active research and advanced development projects. At any given time, you may find yourself:

  • Testing and evaluating new video codecs

  • Contributing to subjective experiments evaluating video quality

  • Developing python-based scripts to drive media analysis

  • Developing web-apps/dashboards for data visualization

  • Contributing to one of our advanced media processing projects

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • Knowledge and experience in Python and with Python libraries such as pandas/numpy for data analysis and matplotlib/plotly for visualization

  • Understanding or experience with Linux

  • Experience deploying and optimizing AI/ML models and frameworks

  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

  • Proficiency in data analysis and analytical thinking

  • Strong ability to multi-task and context-switch with ease in a fast-paced, and ever-evolving organization

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

  • Knowledge and experience in C/C++ 

  • Video encoding and codec (e.g. H264, H265, AV1, VVC) experience

  • Experience with data visualization and analysis

  • Experience with building web-apps/dashboards for data visualization

  • Experience with working with Dockers

Education

  • Junior or Senior year preferred

  • Currently pursing a bachelor’s with a major in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Data Engineering or related major preferred 

Eligibility Requirements & Program Information

  • Be enrolled in an accredited college/university pursuing a degree taking at least one class in the semester/quarter (spring/fall) prior to participation in the internship program AND returning to school the semester/quarter following the internship 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

  • Fully available from M-F, 40 hours each week for the entire program duration: May/June - August/September 2025 (12 weeks)

  • Able to provide own housing for the duration of the internship program in the Morrisville, NC area

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


    The pay rate for this role in Santa Monica, CA or Seattle, WA or New York, NY is $40.00 per hour. Select benefits may be provided as part of the compensation package, such as medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered. To learn more about our benefits visit: https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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    About Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology:

    Disney Entertainment and ESPN Technology (DE&E Technology) provides the technological backbone and product development for Disney’s two media business units, while helping to keep the company at the vanguard of innovation – enabling the Company to continuously leverage technology to enhance storytelling and creativity, while delivering scalability, flexibility, and efficiency for its businesses.

    About The Walt Disney Company:

    The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

    This position is with Disney Streaming Technology LLC, which is part of a business we call Disney Entertainment & ESPN Technology.

    Disney Streaming Technology LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.

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