Principal Machine Learning Engineer

• A track record of architecting and shipping large-scale ML or AI systems that deliver measurable customer and business impact.
• Deep experience with LLM-powered products, agentic systems, model evaluation, experimentation, and dataset development.
• Strong production engineering skills and the ability to remain hands-on in a modern ML stack.
• Principal-level technical leadership: setting direction, influencing across teams, and leading complex initiatives from ambiguity to production.
• Excellent product and technical judgment, including balancing quality, speed, reliability, safety, latency, and cost.
• The ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and raise the effectiveness of engineers around you through mentorship and technical leadership.

At Atlassian, we strive to design equitable, explainable, and competitive compensation programs.

We follow consistent hiring practices and account for each candidate's skills, knowledge, and experience when setting base pay within the range.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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