Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Private Search Quality (AU remote)

You've got hands-on experience building and shipping ML systems in production, ideally in search, ranking, LTR or relevance, not just training models in a notebook. You're comfortable defining and moving the metrics that matter (relevance, recall, ranking quality) rather than just chasing model accuracy in isolation. You can take a scoped project from idea to shipped with minimal guidance, bringing your own judgement to how a problem should be solved rather than needing a fully defined solution handed to you. You're highly autonomous, comfortable with ambiguity as search surfaces and user needs evolve, and you want your work to show up in something real people use every day.

What You'll Learn & Build

Deep experience building and improving production ranking and relevance systems at Canva's scale

Exposure to how ML, product, and infra decisions intersect across the wider Discovery group

The chance to work on emerging surfaces like agent-driven search as the space develops

We’d still love to hear from you! At Canva, we know that great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, and we value passion, curiosity, and a willingness to learn just as much as specific experience. If you're excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply, you might a great fit in ways you didn’t expect!

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too

Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers

An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more

Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

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