Atlassian

Principal Machine Learning Systems Engineer (GenAI Products & Knowledge Innovations)

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Base Salary

$196k - $309k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement scalable systems for training, fine-tuning, and serving large language models and embeddings.
  • Build retrieval, hybrid search, and RAG pipelines using knowledge-grounded data.
  • Develop experimentation, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for rapid prototyping.
  • Partner with applied scientists to convert new ideas and proof-of-concept systems into production-ready services.
  • Optimize latency, throughput, and resource efficiency for GenAI workloads.
  • Collaborate with ML engineers, backend developers, and product teams to deliver end-to-end innovations.
  • Contribute to model deployment, monitoring, evaluation, and ML systems reliability practices.
  • Lead technical direction and help establish a world-class GenAI systems innovation hub.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in ML systems engineering, backend engineering, or infrastructure roles.
  • Strong track record building and scaling ML-powered services in production.
  • Experience with large-scale model training, inference pipelines, or search and retrieval systems.
  • Proficiency with backend systems and ML frameworks including Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face.
  • Experience with vector databases such as Weaviate, Pinecone, and FAISS.
  • Experience with orchestration frameworks such as LangChain and LlamaIndex.
  • Strong coding skills and ability to optimize systems for performance and reliability.
  • Familiarity with AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker.
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent industry experience.
  • Preferred qualifications include distributed systems, high-performance computing, GPU optimization, GenAI evaluation metrics, monitoring, observability, ML reliability practices, and open-source infrastructure or ML systems contributions.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangement allowing office, remote, or hybrid work, with hiring in countries where Atlassian has a legal entity.
  • Health and wellbeing resources and paid volunteer days.
  • Potential eligibility for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.
  • Employment requires identity verification, which may include biometric data, in line with local law.
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