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Where and how you can work
Our flagship campus is in Sydney, Australia but Austria is home to part of our European operations. And you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.
Fun fact, a big part of our Austrian operations is developing the AI product within Canva to help reimagine how artificial intelligence can be used in design. Pretty cool ha!
At Canva, our mission is to empower the world to design. To ensure our generative AI models are truly helpful, we are seeking a talented ResearchMachine Learning Engineer to build our nextgeneration evaluation system by leveraging automatic evaluations.
Job Description
At Canva, our mission is to empower the world to design. To ensure our generative AI models are truly helpful, we are seeking a talented ResearchMachine Learning Engineer to build our nextgeneration evaluation system by leveraging automatic evaluations.
About the role:
You will engineer sophisticated AI agents that can automatically assess the quality and human alignment of our generative design models. This highimpact role focuses on building the practical systems that make cuttingedge research effective, to provide a rapid feedback loop that guides the future of design generation at Canva, ultimately empowering millions of users to create.
At the moment, this role is focused on:
Agentic Evaluation Systems: Engineering autonomous AI agents that use Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to evaluate the quality, relevance, and human alignment of generated designs.
InferenceTime Alignment: Mastering techniques that improve model outputs without full retraining, but by inferencebased methods including prompt engineering, incontext learning and RetrievalAugmented Generation (RAG).
Model Benchmarking & Analysis: Building a rigorous framework to systematically benchmark internal and external quality understanding models, delivering clear, datadriven insights on human alignment.
Primary Responsibilities:
Design, build, and optimize the infrastructure for an MLLMasaJudge evaluation system for scalable, automated feedback.
Implement and experiment with inferencetime alignment techniques (Prompt Engineering, RAG, ICL) to directly improve model output quality.
Establish and manage a comprehensive benchmarking process to compare various foundation models on designcentric tasks.
Analyze evaluation data to identify model failure modes and provide actionable recommendations to the research team.
Collaborate with research scientists and ML engineers to integrate the agentic judge system into the model development lifecycle.
Translate the latest research in LLM evaluation and agentic AI into practical, productionready engineering solutions.
You’re probably a match if you:
You have a strong understanding of generative AI models (e.g., Diffusion Models, GANs, Transformers) and their architectures, with practical experience that informs robust evaluation strategies
Excel at creating datadriven evaluation methodologies, turning user analytics into clear, actionable insights.
You’ve successfully managed or optimized largescale distributed model training across hundreds of GPUs
You have a solid understanding of machine learning, have worked with PyTorch and know how to optimize such codes for speed
You have disciplined coding practices, and are experienced with code reviews and pull requests.
You have experience working in cloud environments, ideally AWS
Nice to Have:
Familiarity with evaluation libraries and frameworks.
Experience building or working with agentic AI systems or multiagent coordination.
Knowledge of data visualization tools to communicate findings effectively.
A background or interest in humancomputer interaction, design principles, or AI ethics.
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.
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