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Engineering Manager - (ML) - Evaluation PlatformCanva · Sydney, New South Wales, NSW, Australia
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Engineering Manager - (ML) - Evaluation Platform

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🗓️ Posted 2026-08-26 Sydney, New South Wales, NSW, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$18,000–A$28,000/mo

About the Company

Empower the world to design. 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 huge library of fonts, stock photography, illustrations, video footage, and audio clips, anyone can take an idea and create something beautiful on Canva on any device, from anywhere in the world. Since our launch in 2013, we've had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We were founded on the belief that people shouldn't need to understand complex software to unlock their creativity. We're leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. We've always had a deeper mission surrounding Canva - which we talk about as our 'simple' two-step plan: to build one of the world's most valuable companies, and to do the most good we possibly can. We're committed to our core value of Being a Force for Good, so as the value of our company grows, so too does our ability to have a positive impact on the world. Software Development Specialties: Design, Graphic Design, Web app, Software engineering, Startup, Technology, Innovation, Publishing, product design

Responsibilities

  • ● Company Description
  • ● Thanks for stopping by. We know job hunting can be a little time-consuming, and you're probably keen to find out what's on offer, so we'll get straight to the point.
  • ● Where and how you can work
  • ● Our offices are a hub for collaboration and energy. But we also believe in working where you do your best thinking. Canva offers flexibility to work in a way that suits you, whether that's remote, hybrid, or in-office. This role is based in Sydney, close to the majority of the Engineering team.
  • ● Job Description
  • ● About the Group/Team
  • ● Canva's AI Platform Group provides the foundational infrastructure and tooling that powers AI features across the company, supporting MLEs, researchers, and AI builders from CORE and the wider organisation. Within the group, the Evaluation Platform team owns the end-to-end evaluation lifecycle: test-like evals integrated into developer workflows, the Arena comparative evaluation service, monitoring evals sampled from production traffic, and human labelling tooling. The team partners closely with AI feature teams, CORE researchers, and adjacent platform teams (Inference, Datasets, and Training) to make rigorous evaluation the default for every AI feature Canva ships.
  • ● Coaching, mentoring, and growing a team that is a mix of specialties and skills while developing your coaching capability to scale the team and meet the needs of Canva's AI platform vision. You'll do this by:
  • ● Owning and evolving the evaluation platform strategy: consolidating test-like evals, comparative evaluation (Arena), monitoring evals, and labelling tooling into a coherent, self-serve platform.
  • ● Partnering with AI feature teams and CORE leadership to understand their roadmaps and proactively identify the evaluation capabilities needed for upcoming initiatives.
  • ● Coordinating with adjacent platform teams and the evals programme PM to ensure a seamless experience across the full ML lifecycle.
  • ● Owning and driving the delivery of large, cross-team, and cross-group initiatives from ideation to completion, with autonomy and independence of decision making.
  • ● Coaching a team of 9+ engineers by providing regular, practical feedback and collaboratively helping them reach their personal growth goals.
  • ● Owning the team's development methodology and rituals, such as planning cycles, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
  • ● Planning goals and defining success metrics to ensure alignment between the company, group, and team.
  • ● Championing a culture of knowledge sharing and advocating effectively for evaluation and ML engineering needs to stakeholders across Canva.
  • ● Running hiring and resourcing, including resourcing for the execution of the roadmap.
  • ● A history of success in technical people leadership and mentorship of engineers, ideally including senior and staff-level ICs.