Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager

Overview

Working at Atlassian

Atlassians 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. Interviews and onboarding are conducted virtually, a part of being a distributed-first company.

This is a remote position. To help our teams work together effectively, this role requires you to be located in the west coast of the United States.

Your Future Team

We’re looking for a senior machine learning engineering manager to join our Central AI team and lead a group of talented engineers who are responsible for creating and deploying state-of-the-art machine learning models and algorithms. You will report directly to the head of engineering and work closely with the Central AI leadership team to define and execute the vision and strategy for AI modeling training and evaluation, as well as the cutting edge machine learning algorithms development.

You will also collaborate with the AI platform team, federated product teams, and other stakeholders to provide the modeling, framework, and prompt engineering support for the federated product teams to accelerate the AI feature development across the board.

What you’ll do

As a Senior Machine Learning Engineering Manager, you will drive the development and implementation of the cutting edge machine learning algorithms, training sophisticated models, collaborating with product, engineering, and analytics teams, to build the AI functionalities into each Atlassian products and services. Your daily responsibilities will encompass a broad spectrum of tasks such as designing system and model architectures, conducting rigorous experimentation and model evaluations, and providing guidance to emerging ML engineers.

Your role is pivotal, stretching beyond these tasks, ensuring AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings.

On the first day, we'll expect you to have

• Master or PhD in a quantitative subject (Computer Science, Operations Research, or relevant work experience)

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineering teams running core services at scale

• Experience building and scaling machine learning models in business applications using large amounts of data

• Ability to communicate and explain data science concepts to diverse audiences, craft a compelling story

• Focus on business practicality and the 80/20 rule; very high bar for output quality, but recognize the business benefit of "having something now" vs "perfection sometime in the future"

• Agile development mindset, appreciating the benefit of constant iteration and improvement

It's great, but not required, if you have

• Experience working in a consumer or B2C space for a SaaS product provider, or the enterprise/B2B space

• Experience in developing deep learning-based models and working on LLM-related applications

• Excelling in solving ambiguous and complex problems, being able to navigate through uncertain situations, breaking down complex challenges into manageable components and developing innovative solutions

Compensation

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs. To support this goal, the baseline of our range is higher than that of the typical market range, but in turn we expect to hire most candidates near this baseline. Base pay within the range is ultimately determined by a candidate's skills, expertise, or experience. 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: $229,300 - $305,700

Zone B: $206,300 - $275,100

Zone C: $190,300 - $253,700

This role may also be eligible for benefits, bonuses, commissions, and equity.

Please visit  for more information on which locations are included in each of our geographic pay zones. However, please confirm the zone for your specific location with your recruiter.

Our perks & benefits

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