Principal ML System Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 8, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 4, 2026.
Working at Atlassian
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Responsibilities
As a Principal ML System Engineer in the Rovo & AI Engineering org, you will contribute to Atlassian’s biggest bet and fastest area of growth, Rovo Chat. You will bring the latest bleeding edge innovations to the product and build agent harnesses that deliver a step function improvement in quality, reliability and latency.
You will have the opportunity to lead other engineers to drive involved projects from technical design to launch. You will also collaborate with other teams and internal customers to set expectations, gather input and communicate results. Your role is pivotal, stretching beyond these tasks, ensuring AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings.
Your future team
The Rovo & AI Engineering org’s mission is to make Rovo the fastest, most trusted way for any team to find, understand, and act on their organization’s knowledge. Over the last year, the team has made rapid strides along this direction and the product surface has witnessed a 10x growth as a direct result of this effort.
Qualifications
On your first day, we’ll expect you to have
7+ years of experience as a software developer
Experience building customer facing Gen AI Applications at scale
Experience pushing the state of the art to achieve breakthrough quality and reliability
Deep understanding of Machine Learning projects lifecycle
Experience leading and supporting senior engineers and working cross functionally
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 go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.
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.
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