Atlassian
Senior ML Performance Engineer
$149K–$235K
Mountain View, United States or Remote +3 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- Mountain View, United States or Remote
Remote, Remote
San Francisco, United States
Seattle, United States - Experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience.
About the job
Build and optimize enterprise AI integrations, agent-facing services, and user experiences, with a focus on performance, reliability, retrieval, and AI quality.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve MCP servers, tools, agent-facing APIs, and performant React and TypeScript experiences.
- Improve token efficiency, end-to-end system performance, reliability, and semantic retrieval across AI workflows.
- Develop AI/ML evaluation programs and automated release checks, and implement enterprise security controls.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience building and operating enterprise systems, APIs, or cloud-native products.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and React, plus proficiency in at least one additional systems or back-end language such as Python or Go.
- Hands-on experience designing or integrating MCP servers, tools, agent-facing APIs, or related context and agent frameworks.
- Experience with distributed systems, performance measurement, AI/ML evaluation and quality engineering, and semantic search and retrieval.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with MCP architecture, A2A specification, and agent collaboration frameworks.
- Experience with observability, vector databases, secure model-to-model communication, enterprise integration patterns, API governance, or developer experience platforms.
Pay
$180,000 - $235,000 USD base salary; $162,000 - $211,500 USD base salary; $149,400 - $195,050 USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript/JavaScript, React, MCP, GraphQL, REST, JSON Schema, Python, Go
AI focus
Build and optimize AI integrations and agent systems, including token-efficient tool use, semantic retrieval, AI/ML evaluation, safety testing, and quality regression prevention.
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