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Our suite of tools, including Jira, Confluence, Trello, Bitbucket, and Rovo, is trusted by millions of users worldwide to plan, track, and manage their work effectively. At Atlassian, we are dedicated to building innovative tools and technologies that drive the future of work.\nWe are looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer to join our Search & Intelligence organization. The team builds Atlassian’s flagship AI products, including agentic search and chat, long-horizon agents, and capabilities that enrich Atlassian’s Teamwork Graph. We also develop the frameworks, models, and infrastructure that accelerate AI feature development across the company.\nWorking at Atlassian\nAtlassians can choose where they work - 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.\nResponsibilities\nWhat you’ll do\nAs a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will lead the development and implementation of cutting-edge machine learning algorithms and sophisticated models that power AI capabilities across Atlassian’s products and services. You will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and analytics teams to translate complex business and customer needs into impactful solutions.\nYour responsibilities will span designing system and model architectures, leading rigorous experimentation and evaluation, and providing technical mentorship to emerging ML engineers. Beyond these core responsibilities, you will help shape our AI strategy and ensure its transformative potential is realized across Atlassian.\nQualifications\nOn your first day, we’ll expect you to have\nA bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\n\nAt least five years of relevant industry experience in machine learning, data science, or a related discipline.\n\nStrong programming skills in Python and one or more production languages such as Java, Kotlin, or TypeScript.\n\nProficiency in SQL and experience with Spark and cloud-based data environments such as AWS or Databricks.\n\nExperience building, deploying, and scaling machine learning models for business applications using large, complex datasets.\n\nStrong communication skills, including the ability to explain data science concepts to diverse audiences and tell compelling, data-driven stories.\n\nA pragmatic, business-focused approach. You hold a high bar for quality while applying the 80/20 principle and recognizing when delivering a valuable solution today is better than pursuing perfection later.\n\nAn agile mindset and an appreciation for continuous iteration, learning, and improvement.\n\nIt’s great, but not required, if you have\nExperience fine-tuning, post-training, and optimizing state-of-the-art large language models, embedding models, and ranking models.\n\nExperience developing and evaluating advanced agentic AI systems, including tool-using agents capable of planning, multi-step reasoning, and autonomous task execution.\n\nExperience working in consumer or B2C environments, SaaS, or enterprise and B2B products.\n\nA track record of solving ambiguous and complex problems by navigating uncertainty, breaking challenges into manageable components, and developing innovative, practical solutions.\n\nBenefits & Perks\nAtlassian 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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.\nAbout Atlassian\nAt 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.\nWe 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. 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