Data Scientist

Yum! Brands is the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of units, with over 55,000 restaurants across more than 150 countries and territories.

We proudly operate globally recognized brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill – united by a shared passion for innovation, customer experience, and delivering craveable food at scale.

We are seeking a talented and experienced ML to join our team.

As an ML you’ll be joining a team in developing and deploying high performance machine learning applications in the cloud and on the edge. You’ll be working on developing LLM based voice assistants for various use cases: telephony environment/drive through/ordering kiosk. You will contribute to design, implementation, deployment and monitoring of the solutions.

Key responsibilities;

• Design and develop applications utilizing machine learning models to solve specific business or operational problems.
• Contribute to system design and architecture and scaling for cloud and edge ML applications
• Develop ML applications: backend, cloud, deployment, observability
• Optimize performance/latency/cost of the application

Qualifications:

• Our ideal candidate would have 3-6 years' experience of building software applications.
• Strong programming skills in Python – Other languages like C, C++, Java, Go are well regarded but most of the coding will be done in python.
• Experience in concurrent programming
• Experience with large scale deployments
• 2+ years of experience developing cloud applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building LLM based applications
• Experience building audio/voice/telephony applications
• Experience working in a Linux environment
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Knowledge and experience in security, encryption and authentication methods