Senior Principal AI Foundations Engineer

Work180; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

At Atlassian in San Francisco, employees can work in the office, from home, or a hybrid arrangement. We hire people in countries where we have a legal entity.

We are hiring a Senior Principal Engineer for the AI Foundations team, responsible for making AI work well across engineering: how we measure it, the context we feed it, and the compute it runs on. You will lead by doing and build foundational systems to enable AI at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with modern AI systems and developer tooling.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision for how Atlassian enables and builds AI across the software development lifecycle, and turn it into infrastructure teams adopt.
• Stay hands on. Prototype the hardest parts yourself, write code, and set the engineering bar others build to. At this level you lead by doing.
• Build the foundational systems that make AI effective for every engineer, including how we measure whether AI works, give it the right context, and run it reliably and affordably at scale.
• Give engineers and leaders real signal instead of hype, so the company can see where AI genuinely helps.
• Partner across engineering and product teams to shape both the tools we use internally and the AI capabilities we ship to customers.
• Decide when to buy a proven solution, when to build alongside our product teams, and when a problem deserves something purpose built.
• Grow the talent around you. Mentor senior engineers, align principals across the organization, and raise the ceiling for what the team believes is possible.

Skills

AI systems

DevEx tooling

Job description

At Atlassian in San Francisco, employees can work in the office, from home, or a hybrid arrangement. We hire people in countries where we have a legal entity.

We are hiring a Senior Principal Engineer for the AI Foundations team, responsible for making AI work well across engineering: how we measure it, the context we feed it, and the compute it runs on. You will lead by doing and build foundational systems to enable AI at scale.