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

Canva
Sydney
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningSkills: ["Autonomy","Experimentation","Problem-solving","Communication","Ownership"]

Build and improve machine learning ranking and relevance systems for Canva’s private, team, and brand search experiences. Own scoped projects end-to-end, from problem framing to shipped, measurable impact, with a strong experimentation loop. Drive relevance and recall improvements, enhance result understanding and recovery (including exact title match), and extend search quality into newer surfaces like agent-driven search using technologies such as ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and vector search.

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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 for Canva’s private, team, and brand search experiences. Own scoped projects end-to-end, from problem framing to shipped, measurable impact, with a strong experimentation loop. Drive relevance and recall improvements, enhance result understanding and recovery (including exact title match), and extend search quality into newer surfaces like agent-driven search using technologies such as ElasticSearch/OpenSearch and vector search.
Location: Sydney
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 for enterprise user outcomes.
  • •Work on intelligent result understanding, search recovery, and exact title matching.
  • •Contribute to indexing using technologies including ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, vector search, and annotation.
  • •Investigate and resolve quality or relevance regressions in production search; communicate trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:EquityParental Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Hands-on experience building and shipping ML systems in production, ideally for search, ranking, LTR, or relevance (not only notebook training).
  • •Ability to define and evolve the metrics that matter for search quality (relevance, recall, ranking quality).
  • •Capability to take a scoped project from idea to shipped with minimal guidance.
  • •Comfort operating with ambiguity as search surfaces and user needs evolve.
  • •Strong autonomy and judgment in how to solve problems.
Experience:SearchMachine learningRankingRelevance
Skills:AutonomyExperimentationProblem-solvingCommunicationOwnership
Languages:EnglishFilipinoMaoriChineseGermanCzech
Tech Stack:ElasticSearchOpenSearchVector searchAnnotationMachine learning rankingRelevance systemsLTRAgent-driven search

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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