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Principal Machine Learning System Engineer

Posted 16 Sep 2026
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Work experience
7 to 25 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Salary
$236,700 - $309,025 per year
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Working at Atlassian

  • Principal Machine Learning System Engineer
  • Full-Time
  • Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two.
  • We can hire people in any country where we have a legal entity.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Atlassian is a leading provider of collaboration, development, and issue tracking software for teams. With over 138,000 global customers (including 85 of the Fortune 100), we’re advancing the power of collaboration with products including Jira, Jira Service Desk, Jira Ops, Confluence, Bitbucket, Trello, and more. Driven by honest values, an amazing culture, and consistent revenue growth, we’re out to unleash the potential of every team.

IT
Amsterdam
5,000 employees