Remote Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Canva AI

Description:

• Join the Canva AI Group, the team behind the intelligence that powers Canva’s AI experiences, focusing on content generation, smart Q&A, and brainstorming.
• The vision is to create a natural and powerful conversational experience for users, helping them design, write, ideate, and bring their ideas to life with ease.
• The role of Senior Machine Learning Engineer involves reimagining user interaction with Canva by working on AI that powers conversational experiences.
• Responsibilities include building a flexible and scalable conversational AI platform, fine-tuning LLM-based models, contributing to platform engineering, exploring integrations with industry-standard tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring other Machine Learning Engineers.
• This is a hands-on role that requires writing code, shaping features, and partnering with teams across Canva to deliver ML-driven features.

Requirements:

• A strong bias for action and a product-minded approach to engineering is essential.
• Hands-on experience working alongside software engineers, writing production code (including Java Backend), and solving complex engineering problems is required.
• Deep experience in building and deploying ML-powered products, particularly in conversational AI, is necessary.
• The ability to influence roadmap decisions and thrive in ambiguous environments is important.
• A passion for keeping up with the rapidly evolving AI space and a proactive approach to experimenting with emerging techniques is expected.

Benefits:

• Equity packages are offered to ensure that the success of the company is shared with employees.
• An inclusive parental leave policy supports all parents and carers.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance is provided to support wellbeing, social connection, office setup, and more.
• Flexible leave options empower employees to recharge and support personal needs.