Adobe

Staff Machine Learning Engineer

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18 hours ago
Austin, TX, USA or San Jose, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$173k - $307k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design, development, deployment, and productionization of multimodal, generative, and agentic AI systems.
  • Build transformers, diffusion models, LLMs, vision-language models, and other AI systems for content creation, understanding, and transformation.
  • Develop agentic systems that use tools, interact with models and services, and complete complex multi-step creative workflows.
  • Build intelligent capabilities for Firefly AI Assistant and Creative Cloud workflows.
  • Develop scalable APIs, distributed services, and production ML infrastructure integrating AI capabilities into Adobe products.
  • Drive the end-to-end ML lifecycle, including formulation, modeling, experimentation, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and iteration.
  • Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and quality of high-traffic production AI systems.
  • Partner with engineering, product, design, and research teams to translate customer needs into ML solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and raise engineering and machine learning standards.
  • Identify opportunities to apply generative and agentic AI to creative and enterprise challenges.

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience building and deploying machine learning systems in production.
  • Hands-on experience designing and building agentic AI systems involving tool use, orchestration, multi-step workflows, planning, reasoning, retrieval, memory, or human-in-the-loop systems.
  • Experience with agent interoperability and tool integration, including Model Context Protocol, function/tool calling, or similar frameworks and protocols.
  • Expertise in computer vision, generative AI, and/or multimodal machine learning, including transformers, diffusion models, LLMs, or VLMs.
  • Strong foundations in probability, statistics, machine learning, and model evaluation.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with PyTorch or comparable machine learning frameworks.
  • Experience building scalable APIs, distributed services, or production ML infrastructure.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, testing, code quality, and code reviews.
  • Experience with AWS or Azure and Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor.
  • Preferred experience with production agentic AI platforms, multi-agent systems, evaluation, observability, reliability, safety, multimodal video/audio/3D learning, video understanding or generation, temporal modeling, streaming ML, foundation-model optimization, responsible AI, retrieval and orchestration systems, creative applications, research, or open-source contributions.
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About Adobe

10,000+ employees

Adobe builds software for creative work, document workflows, and customer experience used by individuals, teams, and enterprises. Its products include Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro), Acrobat/Document Cloud, and Experience Cloud for marketing and analytics, sold primarily via subscriptions. Founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Adobe is a public company traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ADBE.

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