Senior Machine Learning System Engineer

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As a senior Machine Learning Systems Engineer on the Search Platform team you will own and drive the design development and production deployment of machine learning systems that power search experiences across Atlassians product suite including Jira Confluence and Rovo.

Search Platform Engineering
Design and implement scalable search serving infrastructure including retrieval pipelines vector indexing systems and embedding-based semantic search. Own end-to-end delivery of ML components from experimentation through production rollout across multiple regions and tenants. Contribute to the architecture of high-throughput low-latency search systems that meet strict SLO targets for availability latency and relevance quality.

ML Model Development & Serving
Build and maintain production ML models including neural rankers embedding models and reranking systems. Integrate models into serving infrastructure using frameworks such as Triton and PyTorch ensuring reliability scalability and cost efficiency. Collaborate with ML researchers to translate experimental models into production-grade systems with robust monitoring and evaluation harnesses.

Agentic Search & Retrieval
Design retrieval systems purpose-built for agentic and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) use cases including personalized indexes grounding pipelines and multi-step retrieval workflows. Partner with Rovo and AI platform teams to evolve search infrastructure as a foundational layer for AI agents ensuring retrieval quality freshness and relevance at scale.

Operational Excellence & Cost Discipline
Drive observability monitoring and incident response for search serving systems. Apply FinOps principles to identify and execute cost optimization opportunities across vector search infrastructure and ML serving fleets. Maintain production health through rigorous on-call practices runbook development and proactive capacity planning.

Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with engineering leads product managers and platform stakeholders to define technical roadmaps and deliver against team OKRs. Mentor junior engineers contribute to design reviews and champion engineering best practices across the team.

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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: $180000 - $235000

Zone B: $162000 - $211500

Zone C: $149400 - $195050

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