Principal Machine Learning System Engineer

Work180; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 237,000 - 309,000; Full time

Job summary

Atlassian is hiring a Principal ML System Engineer for the Rovo & AI Engineering org. You will contribute to Atlassian’s biggest bet—Rovo Chat—and lead architecting and deploying agent harnesses that boost quality, reliability and latency.

Expect cross-functional collaboration and leadership opportunities across teams, with flexible working options. You will shape AI-powered solutions, guide projects from design to launch, and help realize AI's transformative potential across Atlassian’s

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a software developer.
• Experience building customer facing Gen AI Applications at scale.
• Experience pushing the state of the art to achieve breakthrough quality and reliability.
• Deep understanding of Machine Learning projects lifecycle.
• Experience leading and supporting senior engineers and working cross functionally.

Responsibilities

• Lead and collaborate with other teams to set expectations and communicate results.
• Drive design decisions and launch ML features from concept to production.
• Mentor engineers and support senior staff across multiple squads.

Skills

Software development

Gen AI Applications

ML lifecycle

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose 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.

As a Principal ML System Engineer in the Rovo & AI Engineering org, you will contribute to Atlassian’s biggest bet and fastest area of growth, Rovo Chat. You will bring the latest bleeding edge innovations to the product and build agent harnesses that deliver a step function improvement in quality, reliability and latency.

You will have the opportunity to lead other engineers to drive involved projects from technical design to launch. You will also collaborate with other teams and internal customers to set expectations, gather input and communicate results. Your role is pivotal, stretching beyond these tasks, ensuring AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings.

Your future team

The Rovo & AI Engineering org’s mission is to make Rovo the fastest, most trusted way for any team to find, understand, and act on their organization’s knowledge. Over the last year, the team has made rapid strides along this direction and the product surface has witnessed a 10x growth as a direct result of this effort.

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have

• 7+ years of experience as a software developer

• Experience building customer facing Gen AI Applications at scale

• Experience pushing the state of the art to achieve breakthrough quality and reliability

• Deep understanding of Machine Learning projects lifecycle

• Experience leading and supporting senior engineers and working cross functionally

It would be great, but not required if you have

• Expertise in taking a platform approach to building product features, enabling multi team contributions

• Experience with efficiently scaling and deploying Machine Learning models

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: $236,700 - $309,025

Zone B: $213,000 - $278,123

Zone C: $196,400 - $256,491

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

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.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

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