Principal Machine Learning Engineer - Central AI

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atlassianJacksonville (FL)

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Principal Machine Learning Scientist As Principal Machine Learning Scientist in Atlassian's Central AI team, you will shape foundational AI capabilities and the features that power Atlassian products. You'll design architectures, train advanced models, and drive experiments that advance our AI infrastructure and experiences. You'll collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics to deliver scalable AI solutions and mentor emerging ML engineers. This role sits at the core of unifying AI across products, enabling efficient cross-team collaboration and impactful customer outcomes. Join us to push the boundaries of AI at scale in a distributed-first environment. Compensation / Benefitshealth and wellbeing resourcespaid volunteer daysbonusesequity

Responsibilities: Design system and model architectures for AI features Train and evaluate advanced machine learning models Collaborate with product, engineering, and analytics teams to integrate AI into Atlassian products/services Conduct rigorous experimentation and model evaluations Provide guidance and mentorship to emerging ML engineers Contribute to building core AI infrastructure and shared experiences (e.g., search, knowledge discovery, conversation)Key requirementsmentoringcross-functional collaborationmachine learning algorithmsmodel trainingmodel evaluationsystem architecture design

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