Senior Machine Learning Engineer Brand Templates (AU remote)
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Job Summary
About the Group/Team
Were the Brand Templates team within the Branded Experience (BEX) group. Our mission is to make it effortless for organisations to create manage and scale on-brand content ensuring every design stays consistent whether its created by one person or thousands across an enterprise.
Brand Templates power the backbone of Canvas enterprise offering. We enable brand designers and administrators to lock down design guardrails while giving end users the freedom to customise within those boundaries. These templates are used by organisations to produce everything from social posts to pitch decks at scale and on brand.
Were now investing heavily in AI to make Brand Templates smarter and the problems are genuinely interesting. Were building systems that extract and understand layout structure from Canvas design format (CDF) to enable on-brand design generation. Were developing ranking and recommendation models that suggest high-performing designs to be converted into Brand Templates. And were working on brandification at scale automatically transforming marketplace templates to conform to an organisations brand guidelines so they can be published as Brand Templates. This is a greenfield ML opportunity at the intersection of document understanding generative AI information retrieval and product-facing ML with direct impact on Canvas enterprise growth.
About the Role
As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Brand Templates youll be the ML technical lead for the team owning the end-to-end ML lifecycle from problem framing through to production deployment and iteration. Youll work closely with product managers product designers backend engineers and platform teams to build ML-powered features that make Brand Templates more discoverable more relevant and more intelligent.
This is not a research role. Youll be building production ML systems that serve enterprise customers at scale with a strong emphasis on shipping measuring impact and iterating fast.
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:
Developing ranking and recommendation models that identify high-performing team designs and suggest them as candidates for conversion into Brand Templates
Building brandification pipelines at scale automatically transforming marketplace templates to conform to an organisations brand guidelines (colours fonts logos imagery style) so they can be published as Brand Templates
Building layout extraction and understanding systems that parse Canvas design format (CDF) to identify structural patterns element relationships and design intent enabling downstream on-brand design generation
Designing and productionising LLM-based pipelines for generating structured metadata (intent descriptions content classifications) across large volumes of brand templates
Running experiments (offline and online) to validate model effectiveness and measure impact on user outcomes
Collaborating with the Templates Platform team and cross-functional partners to define data contracts APIs and integration patterns for ML features
Contributing to the broader Brand System AI vision exploring how ML can reason about brand guidelines design constraints and content structure to assist enterprise users
Establishing ML best practices within the team: experiment tracking model evaluation frameworks monitoring and documentation
Youre probably a match if:
You have 5 years of hands-on experience building and deploying ML-powered features in production environments
You are proficient with Python and ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
You have strong experience with NLP/NLU techniques including working with LLMs embeddings semantic search prompt engineering RAG or fine-tuning
You have experience with document understanding layout analysis or structured data extraction from semi-structured formats
You have experience building information retrieval ranking or recommendation systems
You are skilled across the ML lifecycle: data processing model training evaluation deployment and monitoring
You have experience designing and running A/B experiments to measure feature impact
You are comfortable operating independently as the ML technical lead within a product team while collaborating deeply with engineers PMs and designers
You have a strong product mindset you prioritise ML solutions that improve user experience and drive measurable business outcomes
You are committed to scalable maintainable ML systems with clear metrics and impact tracking
You follow disciplined coding practices actively participate in code reviews and set best-practice standards for peers
Highly desirable:
Experience with layout understanding document parsing or structured extraction from design/document formats
Familiarity with embeddings and vector databases
Experience with enterprise or B2B product contexts where brand consistency and governance matter
Familiarity with GenAI platforms (e.g. OpenAI Anthropic)
Experience with microservices architectures and large monorepos
A Masters or PhD in a machine learning discipline
Additional Information :
Dont tick all the boxes Dont worry about that - nobody does!
Wed 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 youre excited about this role but dont tick every box we encourage you to apply you might a great fit in ways you didnt expect!
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 stack 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
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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.
All interviews are conducted virtually
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
We're a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. Featuring a simple drag-and-drop user interface and a vast range of templates ranging from presentations, documents, websites, social media graphics, posters, apparel to videos, plus a hu ... View more
