Atlassian

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

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7 hours ago
Sydney, Australia +2 moreSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, ship, and operate agentic LLM harness solutions for existing and new AI features.
  • Improve quality and reduce cost across production LLM systems.
  • Build datasets, evaluations, benchmarks, and robust evaluation capabilities for systems operating at scale.
  • Contribute to fine-tuning and model serving, including potentially serving LLMs with NVIDIA Triton Inference Server.
  • Set long-term technical direction for LLM harness engineering and execute architectural improvements end to end.
  • Lead small virtual squads owning critical components and coach junior engineers.
  • Partner with Engineering Managers, Heads of Engineering, product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to influence technical direction.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 4 years of related industry experience in machine learning, including hands-on experience designing, evaluating, and operating LLM-based or agentic systems.
  • Strong coding skills in Kotlin and/or Python, with the ability to write performant, production-quality code.
  • Experience building and operating machine learning systems in production, including practices for improving quality, reliability, and cost.
  • Experience building datasets, evaluations, and benchmarks at scale, with familiarity with SQL, distributed data processing, and cloud data environments.
  • Track record of owning ambiguous technical outcomes from problem definition through delivery and operation.
  • Strong communication and influencing skills across diverse and cross-functional audiences.
  • Experience leading technical work and coaching engineers in a collaborative team or virtual squad.
  • Preferred experience includes fine-tuning smaller language models, using NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, applying ML to personalization or context-aware experiences, and solving problems in enterprise SaaS or similarly large-scale product environments.

Benefits

  • Flexible work location, including office, home, or hybrid arrangements, with hiring available in countries where Atlassian has a legal entity.
  • Health and wellbeing resources.
  • Paid volunteer days.
  • Recruitment accommodations or adjustments are available when needed.

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