Atlassian
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Search & Intelligence
$171K–$269K
Seattle, United States +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, United States
Remote, Remote
San Francisco, United States
Mountain View, United States or Remote - Experience
- At least 5 years of professional experience developing and deploying machine learning or data science solutions in production.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the development, deployment, evaluation, and ongoing improvement of machine learning systems for search, recommendations, conversational experiences, and other Atlassian AI products.
What you'll do
- Own machine learning projects from problem definition through production deployment, measurement, and improvement.
- Build and evaluate scalable models and systems, including for search, ranking, personalization, NLP, deep learning, and LLM applications.
- Collaborate across product and technical teams, contribute to architecture and best practices, and mentor machine learning engineers.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional experience developing and deploying production machine learning or data science solutions.
- Strong Python skills and experience with a production language such as Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript; strong SQL and large-scale data processing experience such as Spark.
- Experience developing, evaluating, deploying, and scaling models with large datasets, plus production software and model evaluation/experimentation experience.
Nice to have
- Experience building search, recommendation, ranking, personalization, or NLP systems; applying deep learning or LLMs in production.
- Experience with agentic systems, ML platforms, model serving, feature stores, observability, or responsible AI.
Pay
USD $206,100 - $269,075 base salary; USD $185,490 - $242,168 base salary; USD $171,063 - $223,332 base salary
Tools
Python, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, SQL, Spark, AWS, Databricks
AI focus
Develops production AI capabilities, including intelligent search, recommendations, conversational experiences, agentic systems, and LLM applications.
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