Machine Learning Engineer

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.