Applied Scientist HYBRID — MELBOURNE, AU

2 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Xero Full time

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

The role As an Applied Scientist, you’ll work cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and designers to apply AI and ML to deliver seamless product experiences that save time and provide insight – allowing our customers to focus on what matters most.

To tackle the hard problems we’re aiming to solve, you’ll

    • Apply foundational ML methods and techniques to Xero's context
    • Share knowledge with colleagues and lift the bar for the AI Products team
    • Collaborate closely with ML engineers to manage the growth rate of technical debt and costs across our stack

Here is what we do look for in an Applied Scientist at Xero :

    • You are drawn to solving hard problems
    • You are comfortable reading research papers and adapting them to problem at hand
    • Constant learning and growth are an important part of who you are

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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