Senior ML Engineer - Production AI & Optimization

0801 The Coca-Cola Company; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta is seeking a Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer to build models and agents powering pricing, packs and promotions. You will work on production ML, prompts, and multi-agent workflows on Databricks and Azure, delivering auditable, executable solutions to business leaders and bottlers.

This senior individual contributor role focuses on hands-on development, model evaluation, MLOps and secure AI practices, with direct access to executive

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software, application or machine learning engineering or data science, including 3+ years delivering machine learning or AI solutions in production.
• Python at production quality: you write code that others ship and maintain.
• Applied machine learning and data science on very large datasets: model development, deployment and MLOps.
• One to two years of demonstrable prompt engineering, and at least one generative AI application delivered to production with real users.
• At least one agent built and shipped on a recognized framework (LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, OpenAI Agents SDK or Azure AI Agent Service), including retrieval-augmented generation.
• Production software practices: APIs and services, CI/CD, automated testing and observability.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production machine learning, optimization and forecasting models on Databricks and Azure — on very large structured and unstructured datasets — that feed commercial decisions on pricing, packs and promotions.
• Design and deliver generative AI and agentic solutions — RAG, tool-calling agents and multi-agent workflows on frameworks such as LangGraph, Semantic Kernel or Azure AI Agent Service — that give a category or brand manager a grounded, auditable answer in Teams.
• Work directly with product managers, data engineers, architects and business leaders in operating units and bottlers to turn an ambiguous question into a model, an optimization and an agent that explains its answer.
• Own your solutions in production: evaluation of model and LLM output, monitoring, MLOps and lifecycle management, and compliance with enterprise security, privacy and responsible AI standards.
• Set the engineering patterns the team reuses — code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability — so that delivery gets faster and safer with each release.
• Help shape a team that is being built now: your choices of algorithms, frameworks and practices become the standard.

Job description

The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta is seeking a Senior Manager, Application & Machine Learning Engineer to build models and agents powering pricing, packs and promotions. You will work on production ML, prompts, and multi-agent workflows on Databricks and Azure, delivering auditable, executable solutions to business leaders and bottlers.

This senior individual contributor role focuses on hands-on development, model evaluation, MLOps and secure AI practices, with direct access to executive