Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Learning Experience

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney, with a second campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and Auckland, NZ. You have flexibility in how and where you work — whether that's from one of our spaces, from home, or a mix of both. This role is remote-friendly within Australia or New Zealand, so you can choose the setup that empowers you and your team to do your best work.

About the Group/Team

This year, the Learning Experience group's mission is to ignite creativity in every learner by being fun and accessible, saving teachers and course creators time, and looking after every learner, whether in school, on campus, or in the workplace. We want to continue evolving Canva into a best-in-class learning tool, so that we have a sticky product with better retention.

In 2026, our Engaging Learning team is making it dramatically easier for teachers to save time through two core capabilities: discovering curriculum-aligned content that's ready to use in the classroom, and AI workflows tailored to their specific teaching tasks. We're building discovery systems that surface the right content for each teacher's curriculum context, and generation capabilities that understand educational standards while integrating seamlessly into their existing workflows.

About the Role/Specialty

We’re the Learning Experience group within Teams and Education, on a mission to ignite creativity in every learner. We’re building seamless learning pathways for users of all kinds—students, teachers, teams—across the globe. We thrive at the intersection of education and technology, driving impact by building experiences that empower learners to grow through Canva.

 

What you’ll do (responsibilities)

• You’ll build, test, and ship ML-powered features that enhance learning experiences

• You’ll design scalable ML pipelines in collaboration with our platform teams

• You’ll work closely with PMs, designers and engineers to align on user needs and product direction

• You’ll run experiments to validate assumptions and improve model effectiveness

• You’ll contribute to shared ML infrastructure and best practices at Canva

• You’ll keep up with state-of-the-art developments and explore ways to apply them at scale

What we're looking for

You're a highly skilled machine learning engineer with a proven track record of delivering ML-powered product features in production. You bring deep technical expertise across the ML lifecycle—from data wrangling and model development to evaluation, deployment, and monitoring. You're comfortable operating independently while collaborating deeply with cross-functional teams, and you're 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

Don't tick all the boxes? Don't worry about that - nobody does!  

We’d still love to hear from you! At Canva, we know that great engineers come from a variety of backgrounds, and we value passion, curiosity, and a willingness to learn just as much as specific experience. If you're excited about this role but don’t tick every box, we encourage you to apply, you might a great fit in ways you didn’t expect!

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Here's a taste of what's on offer:

• Equity packages - we want our success to be yours too
• 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 that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and supports you personally

Check out  lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

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