Overview

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Responsibilities

Search Platform’s mission is to power world-class, trusted cross-product knowledge search and discovery for people and agents across all of Atlassian’s product and agentic surfaces. We are looking for a product-minded ML systems leader with deep expertise in applied machine learning and production ML infrastructure.
As a Principal Machine Learning Systems Engineer, you will push the boundaries of how ML powers document understanding, content representations and indexing for enterprise and agentic search. You will own a major capability from problem framing and experimentation through architecture, launch, operation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for a major ML-powered Search Data and indexing capability,



translating customer and product problems into ambitious, measurable ML and systems outcomes.
- Advance and productionise ML approaches for document understanding, enrichment, embeddings and semantic representations, index construction and index evolution.
- Own the ML lifecycle end to end: data and feature strategy, model selection, adaptation or training, deployment, offline evaluation, monitoring and continuous improvement. Partner with Search Quality and product teams on online outcome measurement.
- Design scalable ML and distributed-data systems that operate across heterogeneous sources while balancing retrieval quality, freshness, correctness, reliability, latency and cost.
- Create reusable ML and indexing patterns that make content from new sources and content types easier to represent and index with solid default search quality.
- Lead difficult technical decisions across partner teams and advan

📌 Principal Machine Learning Systems Engineer, Search Platform (Bengaluru)
🏢 Atlassian
📍 Bengaluru