Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Canva AI

About the team

We are the Canva AI Group, and we’re the team behind the intelligence that powers Canva’s AI experiences. From content generation to smart Q&A and brainstorming, we create the end-to-end journeys that make AI feel intuitive, magical, and useful.

Our vision is to create the most natural and powerful conversational experience for our users - helping them design, write, ideate, and bring their ideas to life with ease. The work we do is at the core of Canva’s success, and it plays a vital role in our ambition to become the world’s leading visual communication platform.

About the role

We’re looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to help reimagine how people interact with Canva. You’ll work on the AI that powers our conversational experiences, building on top of large models and designing scalable systems that can be used across the product.

This is a deeply hands-on role where you’ll be writing code, shaping features, and working side by side with software engineers. You’ll take ideas from prototype to production, partnering with teams across Canva to deliver ML-driven features that feel seamless and genuinely helpful.

If you’re excited about crafting AI that feels human, useful, and empowering. If you want to work on something that touches millions of users every day, please apply today.

What you will be doing

• Building a truly flexible and scalable conversational AI platform, designed to serve diverse use cases without custom implementations
• Fine-tuning and evaluating LLM-based models to improve performance, efficiency, and user experience
• Contributing to platform engineering across both ML and backend systems—this is a highly hands-on role
• Exploring integrations with industry-standard tools and best practices like MCP and A2A
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define and deliver impactful AI features
• Mentoring other Machine Learning Engineers and lifting engineering quality and excellence

You’re probably a match if

• You bring a strong bias for action and a product-minded approach to engineering
• You love getting hands-on, working side-by-side with software engineers, writing production code (including Java Backend), and solving complex engineering problems
• You have deep experience building and deploying ML-powered products, particularly in conversational AI
• You enjoy influencing roadmap decisions and thrive in ambiguous environments
• You’re passionate about keeping up with the rapidly evolving AI space and proactively experiment with emerging techniques