Melbourne
20 May 2026
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Senior Machine Learning / ML Engineer

Xero

Senior Machine Learning / ML Engineer

Senior Machine Learning Engineer role at Xero in Melbourne, Australia. Lead AI research and production infrastructure, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with a global team. Requires Python, SQL, distributed systems, and LLM expertise.

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Salary

Not specified

Work Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, AU

Work Model

Hybrid

Employment Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

Core Qualifications

Technical (Must-have)
AWS EMRDaskAirflowMLFlowPyTorchPythonSparkTensorFlowSQLPrefect
Soft Skills
communicationcoachingmentoringproblem solvingcollaboration

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead the design and implementation of AI research and production infrastructure at scale
  • Manage technical debt and direct strategies for distributed systems
  • Champion engineering excellence and mentor junior engineers
  • Collaborate across Xero to enhance data usability
  • Refactoring complex systems and designing scalable distributed production infrastructure
  • Harness tools like Python, SQL, Spark or Dask for web-scale data workloads
  • Develop production environments using AI frameworks and data orchestration tools
  • Explore and apply modern Large Language Model technologies
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