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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.

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CEO of Xero

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What You Should Know About Machine Learning Engineer, Xero

Xero is actively seeking a talented Machine Learning Engineer to join our innovative AI Products team. As part of our beautiful, user-centric platform, you'll play a critical role in helping small businesses and their advisors thrive. Our mission is to apply cutting-edge AI and machine learning techniques to deliver actionable insights that truly make a difference. At Xero, we prioritize our people, enabling them to create thoughtful and scalable solutions that enhance our services. In this role, you'll collaborate with a diverse team of data scientists, engineers, and product managers, designing and building the infrastructure for AI products that serve millions of customers worldwide. You'll face exciting challenges, such as building our research infrastructure and developing algorithms that ensure we solve the right problems with the right methods. If you're passionate about machine learning and eager to drive impactful projects at scale, we want you to help us create AI products that not only delight users but also save them valuable time. Plus, life at Xero means being part of a culture that values learning, collaboration, and personal growth, with plenty of perks like flexible working options and generous paid leave. Let’s make life better together!

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for Machine Learning Engineer Role at Xero

What qualifications do I need to become a Machine Learning Engineer at Xero?

To succeed as a Machine Learning Engineer at Xero, candidates typically need experience in delivering machine learning and AI products at scale. Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of distributed processing are essential. Familiarity with TensorFlow is advantageous, as is collaboration with scientific disciplines such as statistics and machine learning.