Canva is seeking an Engineering Manager for AI Reliability to lead a team building foundational AI infrastructure for our in-house research lab, CORE. You'll be responsible for designing and scaling systems that enable a large research team to experiment, train, and evaluate models efficiently.
What You'll Do
- Build AI infrastructure to support a 100+ person research team at the forefront of creative AI
- Design and scale multi-cloud systems that support high-performance model training and inference
- Partner across AWS, GCP, Cloudflare and GCore to optimise GPU compute environments
- Enhance CI/CD pipelines and developer velocity within our AI platform teams
- Improve monitoring, alerting and system observability for AI workloads
- Drive alignment in DevOps best practices across the AI platform and CORE engineering teams
- Lead a high-impact engineering team in a fast-paced environment
What We're Looking For
- Experience leading DevOps or infrastructure teams, ideally in AI or high-performance computing environments
- History of working closely with AI researchers or research teams, enabling experimentation, model training, or evaluation at scale
- Built or led infrastructure that prioritises research velocity and reliability
- Experience with AWS (ECS, EC2, S3, IAM) and multi-cloud environments like GCP, Cloudflare or GCore
- Worked with Kubernetes, SLURM, or similar distributed training infrastructure
- Fluent in infrastructure as code tools like Terraform
- Understand the lifecycle of AI models and how to support R&D at scale
- Strong grasp of containerisation, Linux fundamentals, and cloud networking
Nice to Have
- Collaborative, curious, and passionate about enabling others to move fast and safely
Technical Stack
- AWS: ECS, EC2, S3, IAM
- Multi-cloud: GCP, Cloudflare, GCore
- Orchestration: Kubernetes, SLURM
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
Team & Environment
You'll be part of CORE (Canva Original Research & Exploration), the in-house AI research lab, and will support a team of 100+ researchers.
Benefits & Compensation
- Equity packages
- 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
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role open to candidates located in Australia or New Zealand.
We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva.
