Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager

Atlassian is a company that strives to unleash the potential of every team through its software products. The Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager will oversee the machine learning lifecycle, mentor team members, and drive innovation while collaborating across various departments.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end machine learning lifecycle, from data collection and preprocessing, to model development and deployment, to evaluation and monitoring
• Research and implement novel machine learning techniques and algorithms that can improve the performance, scalability, and robustness of our Recommendation system, and other AI/ML models
• Mentor and coach your team members on best practices, code quality, design patterns, testing, debugging, and documentation
• Hire, onboard, and retain top talent for your team and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence
• Communicate effectively with internal and external partners, present technical concepts and results clearly and concisely, and solicit feedback and input from various stakeholders

Requirements:

• Master or PhD in a quantitative subject (Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, or relevant work experience)
• 5+ years of experience managing machine learning engineering teams running core services at scale
• Experience building and scaling machine learning models and agentic systems 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