Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Photo AI

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time consuming and youre probably keen to find out whats on offer so well get straight to the point.

Where and how you can work

The buzzing Canva London campus features several buildings around beautiful leafy Hoxton Square in Shoreditch. While our global headquarters is in Sydney Australia London is our HQ for Europe with all kinds of teams based here plus event spaces to gather our team and communities. Youll experience a warm welcome from our Vibe team at front of house amazing home cooked food from our Head Chef and a variety of workspaces to hang out with your team mates or get solo work done. That said we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals and so you have choice in where and how you work.

What youd be doing in this role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think thats all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things youll be working on when you start but this will likely evolve.

At the moment this role is focused on:

• Build ML models for AIbased photo editing. This also heavily involves staying uptodate with the literature and evaluating stateoftheart models that are applicable for commercial use.
• Take over project ownership responsibilities and drive projects with specialties like Frontend and Backend to success. This involves ownership of project timeline and collaboration with Design and Product to achieve the best fitting product for Canva.
• Stay uptodate with the very recent advances of AI for photo editing and you bring new ideas to the team for new AIbased features that our team should build
• Improve the quality of our existing features by improving our quality evaluation processes and by bringing new ML ideas to the team
• Boost the efficiency of our existing features through code optimization incorporating new models or Python libraries or by reevaluating and speeding up our full stack.
• Collect data that we need for model training or model evaluation or you delegate that to the Data Labelling team.

Youre probably a match if

• You have a Masters (ideally Ph.D.) degree in Computer Science (or similar) focusing on machine learning & published papers in peerreviewed journals and conferences.
• You have a solid understanding of computer vision especially the concepts of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) transformers generative adversarial networks and diffusion models.
• You are proficient with: Deep learning frameworks (Pytorch gives bonus points alternatively other frameworks like Tensorflow or JAX) Python 3 Numpy OpenCV Docker & Kubernetes.
• You are able to pick up knowledge of the stateoftheart of a specific ML topic quickly since most projects start with a phase of literature research and communicating the context to the team (across timezones).
• You have a deep understanding of machine learning at scale including training sophisticated models on big datasets. Youre experienced in deploying these models on cloud platforms to efficiently serve millions of users.
• You have a demonstrable sense of ownership and are eager to find and develop novel solutions to challenging problems such as developing ML models for processing large images in a memoryefficient and runtimeefficient manner.
• You are an excellent communicator and teammate keen to work with your colleagues and brainstorm ideas together.

About the team

We are the Photo AI team. We push the boundaries of what is possible in Photo Editing and make a lasting impact on our users creative journeys. Our mission is to position Canva as a leader in Visual AI by consistently delivering cuttingedge AI based features that enhance the Photo Editing experience. Our spirit is to set realistic but crazybig goals where we dive into the unknown and make new things happen which is a collaborative effort from all the people in the team. We believe in the power of innovation and highquality delivery which is made possible through our ability to focus on what is more impactful for our users and through our ability to invent novel solutions to hard image processing and understanding problems. We are part of the Multimedia Group and together we make Multimedia (photo and video) storytelling quick simple and fun for everyone.

Whats in it for you

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

Heres a taste of whats 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

We make hiring decisions based on your experience skills and passion as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you dont feel like your skills quite match whats listed above we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Fulltime

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