Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Responsible AI
Atlassian · Posted Oct 27
Enterprise project management, team collaboration, and software development tools
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About the role
The Responsible AI (RAI) & AI Safety engineering team builds, operates, and advances centralized AI safety, content moderation, and guardrail platforms powering Atlassian Intelligence and Rovo. Its systems run inline and asynchronously across high-throughput production workloads to detect and mitigate jailbreaks, prompt injection, harmful content, bias, and policy violations. This Senior Machine Learning Engineer role will design, evaluate, and deploy ML/LLM-based safety models and defenses, optimize real-time serving, and support compliance and governance.
What you will do
- Design & Productionize Safety Models: Architect, train, fine-tune, and deploy ML/LLM-based guardrail and moderation models (text, multi-modal, and code) to safeguard user inputs and model outputs across Atlassian products.
- Build Robust Evaluation & Benchmarking: Design offline and online evaluation frameworks, adversarial test suites (red-teaming), and LLM-as-a-judge pipelines to measure precision, recall, false-positive rates, and robustness against model drift.
- Optimize for Real-Time Serving: Work at the intersection of model accuracy and low latency (P50/P99 targets) to deliver cost-effective, high-throughput safety filtering integrated with our central AI Gateway and inference layers.
- Combat Emerging Threats: Research and build defenses against adversarial prompts, jailbreaks, data leakage, hallucinations, and unauthorized tool-calling behaviors in agentic systems.
- Drive Global Compliance & Governance: Support technical readiness for enterprise standards and emerging AI regulations (e.g., EU AI Act, ISO 42001 / AIMS, FedRAMP) through verifiable safety controls, a...
Skills used in this role
Benefits and support
- Atlassians can choose where they work – whether in an office, from home, or a combination of the two.
About Atlassian
Atlassian is a leading software company that builds enterprise collaboration, project planning, and issue-tracking tools such as Jira, Confluence, and Trello. Empowering teams across the globe, Atlassian focuses on unleashing the potential of every team through advanced workflows, cloud infrastructure, and AI-driven capabilities.
- Industry
- Software
- Company size
- 10001+ employees
- Founded
- 2002
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $210M raised
- 2010-07-13Venture - Series Unknown$60M
- 2014-04-10Secondary Market$150M
Leadership
CEO & Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Revenue Officer
Chief People and AI Enablement Officer
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