At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop ML applications for voice assistants in a dynamic team.
- Company: Join Yum! Brands, the world's largest restaurant company with iconic brands.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work, and extra wellbeing days.
- Other info: Exciting career growth in a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Make an impact on innovative tech solutions in the food industry.
- Qualifications: 3+ years in software development, strong Python skills, and cloud experience.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 100000 $ per year.
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 backend engineer to join our team in building cutting-edge voice assistants that leverage LLMs, speech recognition, and text-to-speech models. You will be working in a cross-functional team of experienced data scientists and engineers to develop highly scalable solutions for call centers, drive-throughs, and ordering kiosks. You will have the opportunity to contribute to the design, implementation, deployment, and monitoring of these solutions.
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
- Optimize performance/latency/cost of the application
Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience building software applications
- Strong programming skills in Python – other languages like C, C++, Java, Go are well regarded but most coding will be 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
We offer a competitive remuneration package, a flexible/hybrid working environment, and 5 additional paid leave days every year – “wellbeing” days.
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Salary: A$60,000.00 - A$100,000.00
Employment type: Full-time
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Restaurants
Senior Backend Engineer for ML Applications employer: Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters innovation and collaboration among talented professionals. Located in Brisbane, our team enjoys a flexible hybrid working environment, competitive remuneration, and unique benefits such as five additional paid wellbeing days each year, ensuring a healthy work-life balance while contributing to cutting-edge ML applications for globally recognised brands.
