Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager

Atlassian is a company motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. They are seeking a Senior Machine Learning Engineer Manager to oversee the machine learning lifecycle and mentor a team, while collaborating with various stakeholders to enhance their AI/ML products.

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