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Principal Machine Learning System Engineer

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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: $236,700 - $309,025 Zone B: $213,030 - $278,123
Zone A: $236,700 - $309,025 Zone B: $213,030 - $278,123 Zone C: $196,461 - $256,491
Zone B: $213,030 - $278,123 Zone C: $196,461 - $256,491 Qualifications
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What you’ll work on

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  • Build agent harnesses that improve quality, reliability and latency

  • Bring the latest cutting-edge innovations into the Rovo Chat product

  • Lead other engineers on projects from technical design to launch

  • Collaborate with other teams and internal customers to set expectations and communicate results

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build agent harnesses that deliver a step function improvement in quality, reliability and latency
You will bring the latest bleeding edge innovations to the product
You will have the opportunity to lead other engineers to drive involved projects from technical design to launch
You will also collaborate with other teams and internal customers to set expectations, gather input and communicate results

What you’ll bring

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Core experience

  • 7+ years of experience as a software developer
  • Experience building customer facing Gen AI Applications at scale
  • Experience pushing the state of the art for breakthrough quality and reliability
  • Deep understanding of the Machine Learning project lifecycle
  • Experience leading and supporting senior engineers and working cross functionally
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7+ years of experience as a software developer
Experience building customer facing Gen AI Applications at scale
Experience pushing the state of the art to achieve breakthrough quality and reliability
Deep understanding of Machine Learning projects lifecycle
Experience leading and supporting senior engineers and working cross functionally

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  • Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

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At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team.

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How this job compares

Pay

$166K–$240K is typical

The middle half of what similar US postings state. This one doesn’t list pay.

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Time since we first saw it

Day 53

Similar jobs usually come down between day 6 and day 71.

Well past Atlassian’s usual: its jobs come down by about day 25.

From 4,633 similar postings that came down, and 26 of Atlassian’s. Coming down is not always a hire.

Atlassian is hiring

48 open jobs

Open jobs by the week we first saw them, last 12 weeks.

  • ML Engineer hiring is steady
  • Takes jobs down at a usual pace
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About Atlassian

People
About 13,301 in 2026, down 4% from the year before.Annual report (SEC Form 10-K)
Company
Listed as TEAM.

Demand for ML Engineer roles

New ML Engineer postings at the employers we follow are up 12% over the last 5 weeks compared with the 5 before.

Weekly new ML Engineer postings at the same employers, from the week of August 17 to the week of October 26. The fewest in a week was 624, the most 1,094, and the latest week had 870.
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About the role

We file this job under ML Engineer, by the work the posting describes.

ML engineers put machine learning models into products. They write the code that trains, ships, serves and monitors models so a recommendation or prediction works for real users.

Postings ask for strong Python and software engineering, a framework such as PyTorch, cloud services, and more and more often experience with large language models.

A data scientist often works out which model to build; an ML engineer makes it run reliably in production.

US government figures for computer and information research scientists

Median yearly pay, May 2025
$140,300
Expected change, 2025 to 2035
21.8% more jobsagainst 3.5% for all jobs

The government has no code for ML engineers, so these figures are for the closest group, computer and information research scientists.

Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (May 2025) and Employment Projections (2025 to 2035). Occupation code 15-1221.

Job description

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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.

Responsibilities

As a Principal ML System Engineer in the Rovo & AI Engineering org, you will contribute to Atlassian’s biggest bet and fastest area of growth, Rovo Chat. You will bring the latest bleeding edge innovations to the product and build agent harnesses that deliver a step function improvement in quality, reliability and latency.

You will have the opportunity to lead other engineers to drive involved projects from technical design to launch. You will also collaborate with other teams and internal customers to set expectations, gather input and communicate results. Your role is pivotal, stretching beyond these tasks, ensuring AI's transformative potential is realized across our offerings.

Your future team

The Rovo & AI Engineering org’s mission is to make Rovo the fastest, most trusted way for any team to find, understand, and act on their organization’s knowledge. Over the last year, the team has made rapid strides along this direction and the product surface has witnessed a 10x growth as a direct result of this effort.

Pay Ranges

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: $236,700 - $309,025

Zone B: $213,030 - $278,123

Zone C: $196,461 - $256,491

Qualifications

On your first day, we’ll expect you to have

  • 7+ years of experience as a software developer

  • Experience building customer facing Gen AI Applications at scale

  • Experience pushing the state of the art to achieve breakthrough quality and reliability

  • Deep understanding of Machine Learning projects lifecycle

  • Experience leading and supporting senior engineers and working cross functionally

It would be great, but not required if you have

  • Expertise in taking a platform approach to building product features, enabling multi team contributions

  • Experience with efficiently scaling and deploying Machine Learning models

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: $236,700 - $309,025

Zone B: $213,000 - $278,123

Zone C: $196,400 - $256,491

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

Please visit go.atlassian.com/payzones 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.

Benefits & Perks

Atlassian offers a wide range of perks and benefits designed to support you, your family and to help you engage with your local community. Our offerings include health and wellbeing resources, paid volunteer days, and so much more. To learn more, visit go.atlassian.com/perksandbenefits.

About Atlassian

At Atlassian, we're motivated by a common goal: to unleash the potential of every team. Our software products help teams all over the planet and our solutions are designed for all types of work. Team collaboration through our tools makes what may be impossible alone, possible together.

We believe that the unique contributions of all Atlassians create our success. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

To provide you the best experience, we can support with accommodations or adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. Simply inform our Recruitment team during your conversation with them.

To learn more about our culture and hiring process, visit go.atlassian.com/crh.

In line with local law, identity verification (which may include use of biometric data) is a condition of employment with Atlassian for employment fraud purposes.

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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: $236,700 - $309,025 Zone B: $213,030 - $278,123
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