Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Private Search Quality (AU remote)

Canva
Melbourne
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Experimentation","Iteration","Problem-solving","Communication"]

Build and improve machine learning ranking and relevance systems that help Canva users find private, team, and brand content. Own end-to-end scoped projects—from defining the problem to shipping measurable impact on search quality. Collaborate with backend engineers on ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and vector search, enhance result understanding and search recovery, and investigate production relevance regressions through experimentation and iteration.

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Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Private Search Quality (AU remote)

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Job Summary

Build and improve machine learning ranking and relevance systems that help Canva users find private, team, and brand content. Own end-to-end scoped projects—from defining the problem to shipping measurable impact on search quality. Collaborate with backend engineers on ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and vector search, enhance result understanding and search recovery, and investigate production relevance regressions through experimentation and iteration.
Location: Melbourne
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Build, evaluate, and improve ML ranking models for private, team, and brand content search.
  • •Drive relevance and recall improvements, including enterprise user outcomes.
  • •Work on intelligent result understanding, search recovery, and exact title match.
  • •Contribute to indexing using ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, vector search, and annotation.
  • •Extend search quality and coverage into newer surfaces like agent search and investigate production regressions.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityParental LeaveWellness Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on experience building and shipping ML systems in production, ideally for search, ranking, LTR, or relevance (not just notebook training).
  • •Comfort defining and evolving the metrics that matter (relevance, recall, ranking quality) rather than optimizing accuracy alone.
  • •Ability to take a scoped project from idea to shipped with minimal guidance, using judgment on how to solve the problem.
  • •High autonomy and comfort operating with ambiguity as search surfaces and user needs evolve.
  • •Willingness to make an impact on real, everyday user experiences.
Experience:SearchRankingLTRRelevanceProduction ML
Skills:ExperimentationIterationProblem-solvingCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:ElasticSearchOpenSearchVector searchAnnotationElasticSearch/OpenSearchLTR

Company Brief

Canva
Canva is an online visual communications platform that provides drag-and-drop design tools, templates, and media assets for creating presentations, social media graphics, videos, documents and more, serving individuals and large enterprises globally.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia
Founded: 2012
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