Working at Atlassian

Atlassians can choose where they work â€ 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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

As a Principal Machine Learning engineer, you will drive the development and implementation of the cutting edge machine learning algorithms, training sophisticated models, collaborating with product, engineering, and analytics teams, to build the AI functionalities into each Atlassian products and services. Your daily responsibilities will encompass a broad spectrum of tasks such as designing system and model architectures, conducting rigorous experimentation and model evaluations, and providing guidance to emerging ML engineers. Your role is pivotal, stretching beyond these tasks, ensuring AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings.

On the first day, we'll expect you to have

10+ years of total experience, 5+ years of related industry experience in the MLE / data science domain
Fluency in Python
Solid understanding of machine learning concepts and algorithms, including supervised and unsupervised learning, deep learning, and NLP.
Familiarity with popular ML libraries like sci-kit-learn, Keras/TensorFlow/PyTorch, numpy, pandas
Good Understanding of Machine Learning project lifecycle
Experience in architecting and implementing high-performance RESTful microservices ( API development for ML Models )
Familiarity with MLOps and experience with scaling and deploying Machine Learning models
Focus on business practicality and the 80/20 rule very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of having something now vs perfection sometime in the future
Agile development mindset, appreciating the benefit of constant iteration and improvement

It's Great, But Not Required, If You Have

Experience in developing deep learning-based models and working on LLM-related applications
Excelling in solving ambiguous and complex problems, being able to navigate through uncertain situations, breaking down complex challenges into manageable components and developing innovative solutions.
Experience or passion on building cutting edge developer tools products with AI/ML

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

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

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 .

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.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

Principal Machine Learning Engineer