Sr Manager, Machine Learning Engineering

McDonald’s Corporation

Actively hiring
Chicago, Illinois Posted 32 days ago $149,260–$190,310 / year
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At a glance

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TL;DR

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at McDonald’s EDAA team, you will design and deploy scalable ML/AI solutions to enhance operations and elevate the customer experience. Your daily tasks include collaborating with data scientists and product managers to develop robust machine learning pipelines, optimizing model performance, and ensuring production-grade reliability through MLOps practices. You will use Python alongside libraries like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, and PyTorch, while leveraging cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS for deployment. Additionally, you will contribute to the exploration of state-of-the-art methods including deep learning and generative AI, ensuring that your work addresses real business challenges at scale within McDonald’s global ecosystem.

Skills

Python scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch MLOps MLflow Kubeflow Airflow AWS Google Cloud Platform CI/CD Docker Kubernetes Prometheus Grafana

What you'll do

  • Develop and validate predictive models using supervised, unsupervised, and time series learning techniques.
  • Design and optimize end-to-end machine learning pipelines for data ingestion to model deployment.
  • Build scalable ML infrastructure supporting both batch and real-time inference on cloud platforms.
  • Conduct exploratory data analysis to extract actionable insights from structured and unstructured datasets.
  • Implement monitoring and retraining strategies to maintain model quality over time.

What we're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning and AI engineering.
  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and ML libraries like scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch.
  • Solid understanding of feature engineering, model selection, hyperparameter tuning, evaluation metrics.
  • Experience building production-grade ML systems with model serving and monitoring.
  • Proficiency with MLOps tools such as MLflow, Kubeflow, Airflow, CI/CD frameworks.

Market check

Salary context

This $149,260–$190,310 range sits above 18% of similar postings on FindRole.

Peer median band

$170,000–$261,850

Median floor and ceiling across peers.

Typical midpoint (25–75%)

$182,921–$249,821

Middle half of comparable postings.

Based on 240 comparable postings.

* 240 is the maximum number of comparable postings sampled.

Employer

About McDonald’s Corporation

McDonald’s Corporation is the world's largest fast-food chain by revenue, operating over 40,000 locations in more than 100 countries.

McDonald’s Corporation currently has 64 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $138,207–$172,758 across 62 roles with salary data.

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