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.

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 chance 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
Versatile/hybrid working workplace
5 additional paid leave days every year – “wellbeing” days

Job details
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Salary: A$60,000.00 - A$100,000.00
Posting history: 3 months ago
Employment type: Full-time
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Restaurants
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📌 Senior Backend Engineer For Ml Applications Queensland
🏢 Yum! Brands
📍 Queensland