Senior Principal Machine Learning Systems Engineer

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians have flexibility in where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two. That way, Atlassians have more control over supporting their family, personal goals, and other priorities. We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company. 

Atlassian is seeking a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join our Central AI organization. The Central AI organization develops the foundational infrastructure, data pipelines, frameworks, models, Gen AI and other capabilities to expedite AI feature development throughout the entire company.

Responsibilities

Your future team

Central AI’s mission is to expedite AI innovation across all Atlassian products and platforms, ensuring a unified AI user experience and establishing a robust AI infrastructure for Atlassian's future.

Central AI is tasked with constructing the underlying infrastructure and capacities, which are crucial for the seamless integration and optimal functionality of AI across various products. By doing so, Central AI ensures that different teams within the organization do not work in silos but have access to a unified foundation that promotes efficiency and collaboration. Additionally, Central AI is responsible for developing some of the core shared experiences typical in the AI domain, such as search, knowledge discovery, conversation, and agents.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Principal Machine Learning Engineer, your role will be instrumental in steering the development and deployment of advanced machine learning algorithms and system architecture. You will be tasked with training complex models and working in close collaboration with product, backend/front end engineering, and analytics teams to seamlessly integrate AI functionalities into every Atlassian product and service. Your day-to-day responsibilities will span a wide range of tasks, including designing system and model architectures, conducting meticulous experimentation and model evaluations, and mentoring budding ML engineers. Your role extends beyond these tasks, playing a crucial part in harnessing the transformative power of AI across our product suite.

Qualifications

Your background

On the first day, we'll expect you to have

• Master’s degree or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ years of related industry experience in AI/machine learning domain

• Expertise in Python or Java with and the ability to write performant production-quality code, familiarity with SQL, knowledge of Spark and cloud data environments (e.g. AWS, Databricks)

• Experience building and scaling machine learning models in business applications using large amounts of data

• Ability to communicate and explain data science concepts to diverse audiences, craft a compelling story

• Focus on business practicality and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of "having something now" vs "perfection sometime in the future"

• Agile development mindset, appreciating the benefit of constant iteration and improvement

It's great, but not required, if you have

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field

• Experience working in a consumer or B2C space for a SaaS product provider, or the enterprise/B2B space

• Experience in developing deep learning-based models and working on LLM-related applications

• Excelling in solving ambiguous and complex problems, being able to navigate through uncertain situations, breaking down complex challenges into manageable components and developing innovative solutions 

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. In the United States, we have three geographic pay zones. For this role, our current base pay ranges for new hires in each zone are:

Zone A: $292,900 - $407,200
Zone B: $263,700 - $366,500
Zone C: $243,100 - $338,000

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

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