Coca-Cola

Machine Learning Engineer II

Coca-Cola • $152K — $178K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in data platform, analytics engineering, or backend engineering roles.
  • Strong programming experience with Python or common data and ML libraries.
  • Experience developing production machine learning models using frameworks like scikit-learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large enterprise datasets.
  • Practical understanding of MLOps, including CI/CD and automated testing.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with Product Managers and Designers to co-own outcomes and ensure technical feasibility.
  • Analyze and integrate structured and unstructured data from various sources.
  • Develop predictive models using statistical and machine learning techniques.
  • Build reliable training and inference pipelines for real-time use cases.
  • Ensure strong standards for data quality and implement MLOps pipelines.
  • Monitor production models for performance and operational issues.
  • Communicate segmentation concepts clearly to business stakeholders.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical and financial benefits package.
  • Opportunities for professional development and growth.
  • Flexible work environment with potential for remote work.
  • Collaborative and innovative company culture.
Full Job Description
Job Description Summary:

The Senior Manager, Software Engineer, Data Platform & Segmentation is a individual contributor accountable for the technical vision, design, and evolution of data platforms and segmentation capabilities that power Customer and Commercial product teams operating under a modern Product Operating Model.

This role functions as a hands-on technical engineer with 3 to 6 years of experience on data and machine learning engineering.

The role emphasizes deep technical expertise, product partnership, and architecture, rather than people management.

Core Accountabilities

Product Model & Discovery Partnership
  • Partner closely with Product Managers, Designers, and Tech Leads to co-own outcomes, not just data assets.
  • Participate actively in product discovery to ensure segmentation strategies are technically feasible, scalable, and analytically sound.
  • Translate business and customer questions into durable data models and segmentation frameworks.


Data Platform & Segmentation Architecture
  • Analyze and integrate structured and unstructured data from enterprise platforms, customers, and external data providers.
  • Build scalable data preparation and feature engineering pipelines for ML applications.


Machine Learning
  • Develop predictive and recommendation models using appropriate statistical and machine learning techniques.
  • Evaluate and select appropriate approaches based on each use case, including: Classification and regression Ranking and recommendation Clustering and segmentation Time-series and forecasting Gradient-boosting and tree-based models Deep learning and transformers Computer vision Embeddings, vector search and RAG
  • Build reliable training and inference pipelines for batch and near-real-time use cases.
  • Develop APIs and services that expose model predictions to web, mobile, CRM, Salesforce, and other enterprise applications.
  • Establish rigorous model evaluation, testing and validation practices.


Engineering Execution & Data Quality
  • Build and maintain high-quality, production-grade data pipelines and services.
  • Ensure strong standards for data quality, lineage, observability, and reliability.
  • Implement MLOps pipelines covering training, testing, versioning, deployment and model lifecycle management.
  • Monitor production models for model performance, data quality, drift and other operational issues.
  • Implement appropriate retraining, rollback and model versioning strategies.
  • Troubleshoot issues across data pipelines, models, inference services, APIs, and production environments.
  • Create reusable ML components and patterns that can support multiple Transaction Growth use cases.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews and engineering design discussions.


Microsoft Azure Data Platform & Fabric Expertise
  • Design and evolve segmentation and data platform architectures leveraging Azure Data Fabric concepts, ensuring interoperability, governance, and reuse across domains.
  • Apply strong architectural judgment across core Azure data products, including data ingestion, storage, processing, analytics, and activation layers.
  • Optimize designs across cost, performance, latency, and scalability, using Azure-native capabilities and patterns.
  • Ensure secure-by-design implementations aligned with Azure identity, access, encryption, and compliance controls.
  • Partner with enterprise architecture, cloud, and security teams to ensure Azure data platform decisions align with broader enterprise strategy while preserving team autonomy.
  • Stay current on Azure data platform evolution and proactively assess new capabilities for business value, not novelty.


Business Partnership & Communication
  • Serve as a trusted technical partner to Customer and Commercial stakeholders.
  • Communicate segmentation concepts, assumptions, and limitations in clear business language.
  • Proactively surface data constraints, privacy considerations, and trade-offs to enable informed decisions.
  • Support external partner and vendor conversations as a technical authority when needed.


Governance, Privacy & Compliance
  • Ensure segmentation approaches comply with data privacy, consent, and regulatory requirements.
  • Collaborate with Security, Privacy, and Legal teams to embed governance into platform design-not bolt it on later.
  • Advocate for responsible and ethical use of customer and commercial data.

Success Measures
  • Segmentation capabilities measurably improve customer engagement and commercial outcomes.
  • Reduced duplication and inconsistency in segmentation logic across products.
  • Improved data quality, freshness, and trustworthiness.
  • Faster time-to-insight and activation for product teams.
  • Platforms and models that scale with growth while controlling cost and risk.


Required Experience & Capabilities
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience in data platform, analytics engineering, or backend engineering roles.
  • Strong programming experience with Python or common data and ML libraries.
  • Experience developing production machine learning models using frameworks such as scikit-learn, PyTorch, TensorFlow, XGBoost, or equivalent.
  • Strong understanding of supervised and unsupervised learning, model selection, feature engineering and statistical modeling.
  • Experience preparing large datasets for machine learning, including cleansing, transformation, feature generation and quality validation.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with large enterprise datasets.
  • Experience designing training, evaluation and inference pipelines.
  • Experience deploying machine learning models into production environments.
  • Practical understanding of MLOps, including experiment tracking, model versioning, CI/CD, automated testing, deployment and monitoring.
  • Experience developing or integrating APIs and services used for model inference.
  • Strong software engineering practices including modular design, source control, code review, automated testing and production debugging.
  • Experience working with cloud-based data and ML platforms.
  • Ability to assess multiple modeling approaches and select the simplest solution capable of meeting the business objective.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders, software engineers and data teams.


The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Pay Range:
United States: 152,000 - 178,300 USD

Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.

Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage:
15

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Location(s):
United States of America

City/Cities:
Atlanta

Travel Required:
00% - 25%

Relocation Provided:
No

Job Posting End Date:
October 14, 2026

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