Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Elements Platform
Core
Build ML systems that power content generation, style understanding, and element/template generation for Canva's design platform.
Role type
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Production Systems)
Builds
ML models for content generation, quality evaluation, and template/element libraries used by millions of daily users.
Domain
Creative design software / Generative AI
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
End-to-end ML lifecycle ownership, data pipeline construction, model deployment and monitoring, experiment design and validation, production reliability troubleshooting, tradeoff analysis (quality/latency/cost), cross-functional collaboration
Preferred skills
Experience scaling ML for content platforms, defining ML engineering practices, technical leadership
Technologies
(Not explicitly listed)
Responsibilities
Design, build, and ship ML models for content generation and quality scoring; Own the full ML lifecycle from data to production; Partner with Content Engine and AI teams to align ML with content strategy; Diagnose and resolve model performance and data quality issues; Run experiments to validate approaches before scaling; Contribute to engineering standards and tooling
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with growth toward technical leadership
