Company Description:

McDonald's evolving Accelerating the Arches growth strategy puts our customers and people first and demonstrates our competitive advantages to strengthen our brand. We are recognized on lists like Fortune’s Most Admired Companies and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies.

Doubling Down on the 4Ds (Delivery, Digital, Drive Thru, and Development)

Our growth pillars emphasize the critical role technology plays as the best-in-class, global omni-channel restaurant brand. Technology enables the organization through digital technologies, and improving the customer, crew and employee experience each and every day!

Global Technology forging the way

Leading the digitization of our business is the Technology organization made up of innovation specialists who build industry defining tech using the latest innovations and platforms, like AI and edge computing to deliver on the next set of groundbreaking opportunities for the business. We take on technology innovation challenges at an incredible scale, and work across global teams who are always hungry for a challenge! This provides access to compelling career paths for technologists. It’s bonus points when you get to see your family and friends use the tech you build at their favorite McD restaurant.

Job Description:

Responsibilities 

1. Technical Solution Development: 

• Design and develop AI-powered solutions using the technical stack on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including Vertex AI, Gemini models, and Python. 

• Collaborate with a team to drive Generative AI solutions forward to solve business problems. 

• Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of the technical solutions to meet the needs of various stakeholders. 

2. Performance Monitoring and Optimization: 

• Monitor the performance of GenAI-powered products and analyze key metrics to assess their impact on Customers, Corporate, Restaurants, and Markets. 

• Identify opportunities for optimization and improvement based on data-driven insights and user feedback. 

• Iterate on product features, user experiences, and business processes to continuously enhance the value delivered by GenAI solutions. 

3. Business Requirements Analysis: 

• Work closely with business stakeholders from Customers, Corporate, Restaurants, and Markets to understand their needs, challenges, and opportunities. 

• Analyze business requirements and translate them into technical requirements, ensuring alignment between technical solutions and business objectives. 

• Identify key performance indicators (KPIs) and success criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of GenAI-powered products. 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor/Master degree in computer science. Advanced degree preferred. 

• Strong problem-solving skills coupled with the ability to think creatively, enabling the generation of innovative solutions to complex challenges.

• Strong knowledge of Lang Chain is highly preferred, Solid knowledge of LangChain is highly preferred, demonstrating a foundational understanding of its principles and methodologies.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, TensorFlow, and PyTorch is required, with exposure to C++ being preferred.

• Expertise in designing, implementing, and managing GCP solutions, including familiarity with key services relevant to AI development such as VertexAI, BigQuery, Dialogflow, Cloud Search and Cloud Functions. 

• Preferred proficiency in Front-End Development, particularly with technologies like React and JavaScript.

• Understanding of one of machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing techniques. 

Additional Information:

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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