Panera Bread

Manager

• Help run great bakery-cafe shifts as part of the leadership team
• Ensure every guest is delighted by the quality of food, service, and staff
• Build engaging relationships that lead to long-term, loyal guests
• Lead, manage, and develop team members through coaching, inspiration, and motivation
• Drive goals in sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience, and celebrate achievements
• Participate in interviewing and selection
• Train the team in food safety standards and ensure they are maintained
• Help build a culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust
• Represent Panera’s Guiding Values and Behaviors

Team Manager

Machine Learning Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for model training, validation, deployment, and rollback
• Productionize data scientist and vendor models into scalable, maintainable, reproducible pipelines
• Own maintenance and performance of enterprise sales forecasting models, including accuracy tracking, recalibration, and continuous improvement
• Diagnose forecast accuracy degradation and improve features, algorithms, hyperparameters, and model logic
• Evaluate forecast performance using measures such as WMAPE and report trends to stakeholders
• Translate promotions, seasonality, café openings and closures, and operational disruptions into model features and adjustments
• Partner with Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Security teams
• Deploy and manage models on Vertex AI, including training jobs, endpoints, batch prediction, and pipeline orchestration
• Operationalize LLM and generative AI workloads using BigQuery and Vertex AI
• Implement monitoring for accuracy, drift, data quality, latency, and failures with automated alerting
• Build automated retraining workflows with promotion criteria and approval gates
• Establish model registry, versioning, and lineage practices
• Manage feature pipelines and prevent training-serving skew
• Monitor and optimize compute and inference costs
• Define and enforce infrastructure-as-code standards for ML environments
• Support security, privacy, governance, and audit requirements
• Troubleshoot production failures, conduct root cause analysis, and implement preventive controls
• Contribute to architecture reviews and present ML platform designs and operational readiness
• Mentor engineers and data scientists on production standards and deployment practices

Machine Learning Operations Engineer

• Help run great shifts as part of the bakery-cafe’s leadership team
• Support team development
• Maintain the high standards guests expect
• Ensure every guest is delighted by the quality of food, service, and staff
• Build engaging relationships that lead to long-term, loyal guests
• Lead, manage, and develop team members through coaching, inspiring, and motivating them
• Drive goals in sales, speed, order accuracy, and guest experience
• Celebrate team members’ achievements
• Participate in interviewing and selection
• Train the team in food safety standards and ensure standards are maintained
• Help build a culture of warmth, belonging, growth, and trust