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About McDonald's: One of the world's largest employers with locations in more than 100 countries, McDonald's Corporation has corporate opportunities in Hyderabad. Our global offices serve as dynamic innovation and operations hubs, designed to expand McDonald's global talent base and in-house expertise. Our new office in Hyderabad will bring together knowledge across business, technology, analytics, and AI, accelerating our ability to deliver impactful solutions for the business and our customers across the globe.
McDonald's is building the next generation of AI-powered solutions to transform customer and crew experiences worldwide . In this role, you will conduct cutting-edge research in Agentic AI and deploy scalable solutions across McDonald's global ecosystem — from powering voice ordering in drive-thrus , to multilingual chatbots for customer care , to knowledge assistants for crew training and restaurant operations. Implement solutions in Python, leveraging libraries such as Hugging Face, LangChain, Haystack, spaCy, NLTK, and integrate with vector databases
Distill AI research into relevant soluitons including fine-tuning (LoRA, PEFT), evaluation, and deployment. Includes prompt engineering, instruction tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF).
Collaborate with AI Engineers, LLMOps/MLOps engineers, and product teams to translate multimodal data into scalable NLP solutions.
Develop Agentic workflows and deployment workflows using Google Agents pace
Support enterprise AI governance, compliance, and risk management for LLM-driven solutions, ensuring adherence to ethical AI principles and responsible deployment.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, AI/ML, or a related field
- 11-15 years of overall experience in hands-on engineering, with 6+ years of mandatory experience in AI/ML engineering in the Agentic space
- Strong expertise in Python programming language and proficiency with AI/ML frameworks (e.g., Deep understanding of deep learning algorithms, NLP frameworks, transformer architecture, data structures, and model optimization techniques
- Experience working with cloud AI platforms and services (e.g., GCP, AWS SageMaker, Google AI Platform, Azure ML) , preferably GCP
- Ability to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
~ Bonus points if you have any of the following:- Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Data Science/AI or a related field
- 6+ years of experience in Agentic development, Agentic workflow development
- 6+ years of experience with design, deployment, and evaluation of diffusion models/ pre-trained NLP models (e.g., Experience in MLOps/DLOps
Monday to Friday, 8 hrs/day
Full time role
Work mode: Hybrid.
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