The Senior Machine Learning Engineer will play a key role in Canva’s Grow team, driving the development of machine learning-powered features that transform how businesses create and optimize ads. As part of a fast-scaling product group born from the acquisition of MagicBrief, you'll help shape the future of creative advertising on a global platform.
What You'll Do
- Building, testing, and shipping ML-powered features that enhance our ad generation experiences
- Designing scalable ML pipelines in collaboration with our platform teams
- Working closely with PMs, designers and engineers to align on user needs and product direction
- Running experiments to validate assumptions and improve model effectiveness
- Contributing to shared ML infrastructure and best practices at Canva
- Keeping up with state-of-the-art developments and exploring ways to apply them at scale
What We're Looking For
- Highly skilled machine learning engineer with a proven track record of delivering ML-powered product features in production
- Deep technical expertise across the ML lifecycle - from data wrangling and model development to evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Comfortable operating independently while collaborating deeply with cross-functional teams
- Motivated by user impact and product outcomes
- Demonstrated experience building and deploying ML-powered features in production environments
- Proficiency with Python and frameworks like TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Skilled across the ML lifecycle: data processing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
- Proven ability to work independently while collaborating cross-functionally with product, design, and data
- Experience with Generative AI (GenAI): LLMs, diffusion models, prompt engineering, RAG, or fine-tuning
- Familiarity with GenAI platforms (e.g. OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic) and embedding-based systems
- Strong product mindset - prioritises ML solutions that improve user experience and product outcomes
- Committed to scalable, maintainable ML systems with clear metrics and impact tracking
- Passionate about ethical ML and responsible data usage, especially in learning environments
- Enjoys mentoring and sharing best practices within the team
Technical Stack
- Python
- TensorFlow
- PyTorch
- OpenAI
- Hugging Face
- Anthropic
Team & Environment
- Part of Canva Grow, a newest product group scaling fast
- Born from the acquisition of MagicBrief
- Includes the Inspire & Create team
- Redefining how the world experiences design
- Helping businesses grow through better advertising
- Combines the agility of a startup with the backing of Canva’s global platform
- Focus on effective, creative, and respectful advertising
- Impact across full customer journey: Inspire → Create → Publish → Insights → Recommend → Inspire
- Values change as part of DNA
- User impact and product outcomes driven
- Committed to ethical ML and responsible data usage
Work Mode
- Remote
- Based in Australia (AU)
Canva is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
