Job Description

Senior Backend Engineer for ML Applications

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Responsibilities

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- Design and develop applications utilizing machine learning models to solve specific business or operational problems
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- Contribute to system design and architecture and scaling for cloud and edge ML applications
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- Optimize performance/latency/cost of the application
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Qualifications

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- 3+ years of experience building software applications
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- Strong programming skills in Python – other languages like C, C++, Java, Go are well regarded but most coding will be in Python
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- Experience in concurrent programming
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- Experience with large scale deployments
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- 2+ years of experience developing cloud applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)
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Preferred Qualifications

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- Experience building LLM based applications
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- Experience building audio/voice/telephony applications
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- Experience working in a Linux setting
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- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
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- Knowledge and experience in security, encryption and authentication methods
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We offer a competitive remuneration package

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- Flexible/hybrid working environment
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- 5 additional paid leave days every year – "wellbeing" days
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Job details

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- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Salary: A$60,000.00 - A$100,000.00
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- Posting history: 3 months ago
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- Employment type: Full-time
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- Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
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- Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
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- Industries: Restaurants
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📌 Senior Backend engineer for ML applications (Queensland)
🏢 Yum! Brands
📍 Queensland