Machine Learning Engineer

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Melbourne, Victoria
Hybrid
Senior level
Cloud • Fintech • Information Technology • Machine Learning • Software
Xero’s online accounting software connects small business owners with their numbers, their bank, and advisors anytime.
The Role
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Xero, you'll design and build the infrastructure for AI products, ensure scalability, solve complex problems, and collaborate with applied scientists. You'll also lead technical project deliveries and enhance data quality and usability across teams.
Summary Generated by Built In

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 


At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.


AI Products at Xero


The AI Products group exists to collaboratively build products that use AI and ML to reduce toil and deliver the right insight at the right time. Working within the Data & Science team, you will join a diverse, globally distributed team of scientists, engineers, product managers, and analysts who help Xero turn data into beautiful, insightful products.


The role 


ML engineers design and build the infrastructure and services that power AI products that serve millions of customers every day. They also work closely with Applied Scientists through the research and development process to create harnesses and to safely take models from research to production environments. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer, you'll lead the technical delivery of projects and design system architectures, collaborating with senior colleagues.


Life at Xero


As a Machine Learning Engineer at Xero, you’ll be joining us on our mission of applying theory to real world problems in a pragmatic and creative way! You’ll have exposure to a variety of complex challenges at a global scale, whether it’s working with cutting edge language models or more traditional ML methods – you’ll get to create AI Products that delight our end users and help save them time!

To tackle the hard problems we’re aiming to solve, you’ll

  • Build our AI research and production infrastructure and services, ensuring their scalability while preserving flexibility for research teams
  • Make sure we're solving the right problems with the right methods
  • Share knowledge with colleagues and lifting the bar for the AI Products team
  • Work with teams across Xero to improve the quality and usability of data 

Here is what we look for in a Machine Learning Engineer at Xero :

  • Experience delivering ML and AI products at scale including strong SQL skills, understanding of distributed processing (data, ML, etc) and collaboration with scientific disciplines (statistics, ML) and Tensorflow is a nice to have
  • You like to solve hard problems and understanding how things work
  • You are comfortable learning new frameworks (distributed processing, ML, etc) and applying them to real problems
  • You are willing to dive into the unknown, and allow new information to change your decisions
  • Constant learning and growth are an important part of who you are
  • You are always willing to learn from others, ask for help and grow and mentor early career engineers

Why Xero? 

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Top Skills

AI
Machine Learning
SQL
TensorFlow

What the Team is Saying

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The Company
HQ: Wellington
4,700 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2006

What We Do

Xero is a global small business platform with 3.95 million subscribers which includes a core accounting solution, payroll, workforce management, expenses and projects. Xero also has an extensive ecosystem of connected apps and connections to banks and other financial institutions helping small businesses access a range of solutions from within Xero’s open platform to help them run their business and manage their finances.

Why Work With Us

Xero is not like most companies. When you join Xero, you become part of something beautiful —a global community of people who are passionate about making an impact on the world. It’s a place where you can truly be yourself and find success in a way that’s meaningful to you.

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