Yum! Brands, Inc.

Sr Machine Learning Engineer

Yum! Brands, Inc.
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2 months ago
Irvine, CA, USASenior

Base Salary

$130k - $162k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Deploy, monitor, maintain, and improve production machine learning workflows for media measurement and customer analytics.
  • Develop and maintain SageMaker processing and training jobs, model endpoints, and supporting infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments.
  • Contribute to Step Functions, Lambda, and Airflow workflows for model training, scoring, retraining, and analytics pipelines.
  • Support MLflow model registration and promotion, configuration management, and versioned model artifacts.
  • Build and maintain Docker images, ECR repositories, and GitLab pipelines for model deployment and release processes.
  • Productionize machine learning models and data pipelines supporting customer analytics, scoring, and decisioning use cases.
  • Investigate and resolve production issues using CloudWatch, DataDog, SageMaker logs, and workflow monitoring tools.
  • Collaborate with Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Analytics stakeholders, and other technical and non-technical partners on platform enhancements and new capabilities.
  • Contribute to engineering best practices, documentation, testing strategies, and operational procedures.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
  • At least 3 years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, MLOps, Software Engineering, or related technical roles.
  • Strong Python development skills with pandas, PyTorch, scikit-learn, boto3, and SQL.
  • Experience with AWS services including SageMaker, Step Functions, Lambda, S3, IAM, and ECR.
  • Experience developing or supporting orchestration workflows using Airflow, Glue, or similar technologies.
  • Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, or Athena.
  • Experience with Docker, CI/CD pipelines, source control workflows, and software development best practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed systems and machine learning workflows.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with Bayesian or probabilistic modeling frameworks such as PyMC or ArviZ.
  • Preferred familiarity with MLflow, Hydra/OmegaConf, FastAPI, or similar ML platform tooling.
  • Preferred experience supporting deep learning workflows in production environments.
  • Preferred exposure to Terraform, Terragrunt, or CloudFormation.
  • Preferred experience with customer analytics, marketing measurement, or recommendation systems.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment insurance options for employees and eligible family members.
  • FSA/HSA options depending on the enrolled medical plan.
  • Short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
  • 401(k) plan.
  • Four weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off, and two paid volunteer days per calendar year.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowAWSDatadogDockerFastAPIMLflowPandasPythonPyTorchscikit-learnSnowflakeSQLTerraform
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