Job Details

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Our flagship office is in Sydney, Australia, but we've also established a hub in San San Francisco, which is now home to our U.S. operations. We offer flexibility in how and where you work.

Job Description

As a Research Engineer in Design Generation Modeling, you will work in collaboration with researchers across the globe to produce artifacts and knowledge that will help us push the state of the art of generative design modeling forward. The role will require developing and implementing experimental training pipelines from data to training to inference.

At the Moment, This Role Is Focused On

• Foundation models for design understanding and generation
• Visual models for design generation and decomposition
• Development of design representations for discrete modeling with MLMs

Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development and optimization of ML data pipelines and training workflows.
• Improve internal training codebases and procedures.
• Collaborate with research scientists and ML engineers to design and implement experiments, ablation studies, etc.

You're Probably a Match If You

• Understand and have experience with distributed training at scale using libraries like DeepSpeed, FSDP, Torch, Titan, etc.
• Enjoy diving deep into and understanding complex engineering problems.
• Are familiar with the literature around GANs, diffusion modeling, transformer architectures, and vision language modeling.
• You have disciplined coding practices and are experienced with code reviews and pull requests.
• Have experience working in cloud environments, ideally AWS.
• Are passionate about both product‑focused and basic research.

Nice To Haves

• Specific experience with modeling design data.
• Experience with Graph Neural Networks.
• Can quickly prototype ML demos with appealing user interfaces (e.g., Gradio and other customized interfaces).

Additional Information

What's in it for you?

• Equity packages – we want our success to be yours too.
• Health benefits plans to support you and your wellbeing.
• 401(k) retirement plan with company contribution.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers.
• An annual Vibe & Thrive allowance to support your wellbeing, social connection, office setup & more.
• Flexible leave options that empower you to be a force for good, take time to recharge and support you personally.

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more information.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva, so even if you don't feel like your skills quite match what's listed above, we still want to hear from you!

When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

Interviews are conducted virtually.

The target base salary range for this position is $180,000 - $225,000. Salary offers consider market data, your experience level, and internal benchmarks of peers in the same domain and job level.