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Xero

Senior Engineer - ML Systems (AI Products)

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6 days ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of large-scale, production-grade distributed systems for AI features.
  • Own architecture decisions and direct distributed-systems strategy across the AI Products estate.
  • Manage technical debt and operational reliability for production services and pipelines.
  • Build interfaces and harnesses that transition machine-learning models from research into production.
  • Design and build scalable distributed infrastructure for generative-AI features.
  • Process web-scale data using Python, SQL, and distributed-processing engines.
  • Deploy and operate production systems on AWS and Kubernetes.
  • Collaborate with Applied Scientists to integrate reliable ML and LLM-based product features.
  • Mentor junior engineers and improve the technical capability of the AI Products team.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building and operating production Python or equivalent-language services at scale.
  • Strong system-design and coding proficiency, with software engineering as the primary focus.
  • Experience owning production services or pipelines, including operational or on-call responsibility, incident response, and technical-debt management.
  • Deep understanding of distributed-processing principles and strong SQL capabilities.
  • Experience integrating machine-learning models or large-language-model features into production systems.
  • Familiarity with MLFlow, TensorFlow, or PyTorch is valued.
  • Familiarity with Airflow or Prefect is valued.
  • Prior experience applying or fine-tuning large language models in a product context is a desirable qualification.

Benefits

  • Flexible hybrid working model combining office collaboration with remote work.
  • Access to modern office spaces and team-aligned office and collaborative boost days.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache SparkAWSKubernetesMLflowPythonPyTorchSQLTensorFlow

Categories

AI & MLBackendData Engineering