Senior Research Data Engineer at Canva

Seniority in posting: senior

Language

Setup: Hybrid
Location: Vienna
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Aug 19, 2026

Description

Canva is hiring a Machine Learning Engineer to own the data foundations for its multimodal agent research. The role builds and maintains data pipelines, storage and retrieval infrastructure, evaluation datasets, annotation and synthetic-data tooling, quality-monitoring systems, and test coverage for large-scale training workflows. The engineer will collaborate with research scientists and product teams, with work available from Canva’s Sydney campus or Austrian European operations.

Required Skills

Python
Data pipelines
Prompt engineering
Ray
AWS
Distributed systems
Data quality
Synthetic data

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Experience building production-grade data pipelines and ML DevOps
Experience with prompt engineering for LLM/VLM outputs
Experience with large-scale ML data workflows, including Ray, data versioning, and training formats
Experience with data pipelines for large-scale distributed ML training
Experience with annotation tooling and human-in-the-loop data collection
Experience loading and writing large datasets to AWS and distributed storage systems
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with preference data collection for RLHF or reward modelling
Familiarity with multimodal data
Experience building synthetic data generation pipelines using LLMs
Background in data quality metrics and monitoring systems
Contributions to ML dataset releases or benchmarks
Translation Company Name: Canva