Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Hands-on Senior ML Engineer supporting and enhancing ML platforms for media measurement and customer analytics in a growing team. Partnering with data professionals to deploy and maintain workflows in AWS.

Posted 6/8/2026full-timeIrvine • California, Kentucky, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $129,800 - $162,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowAmazon RedshiftAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerPandasPythonPyTorchScikit-LearnSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the deployment, monitoring, and ongoing maintenance of media measurement and customer modeling systems in partnership with Data Science and Engineering teams.
Develop and maintain SageMaker processing and training jobs, model endpoints, and supporting infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments.
Contribute to Step Functions, Lambda functions, and Airflow (MWAA) workflows that orchestrate model training, scoring, retraining, and analytics pipelines.
Support MLflow model registration and promotion processes, configuration management, and versioned model artifacts.
Build and maintain Docker images, ECR repositories, and GitLab CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable model deployment and release processes.
Help productionize machine learning models and data pipelines that support customer analytics, scoring, and decisioning use cases.
Investigate and resolve production issues using CloudWatch, DataDog, SageMaker logs, and workflow monitoring tools.
Collaborate with cross-functional partners to implement platform enhancements, improve operational reliability, and deliver new capabilities.
Contribute to engineering best practices, documentation, testing strategies, and operational procedures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
3+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, MLOps, Software Engineering, or related technical roles.
Strong Python development skills, including experience with pandas, PyTorch, scikit-learn, boto3, and SQL.
Experience working with AWS services such as 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.
Experience with Bayesian or probabilistic modeling frameworks such as PyMC or ArviZ.
Familiarity with MLflow, Hydra/OmegaConf, FastAPI, or similar ML platform tooling.
Experience supporting deep learning workflows in production environments.
Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Terragrunt, or CloudFormation.
Experience working with customer analytics, marketing measurement, or recommendation systems.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonpandasPyTorchscikit-learnboto3SQLDockerCI/CDBayesian modelingdeep learning

Soft Skills

troubleshootingdebuggingcollaboration