Research Scientist

About Adobe
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transforming how companies interact with customers across every screen.
Adobe Express enables all users, whether individuals or large organizations, to effortlessly produce impressive content. The AI Foundations team constructs a flexible, scalable AI framework that drives creativity at scale in design, imaging, motion, and personalization.
Were looking for a Principal Scientist to build and implement the AI framework for Adobe Express, merging strong ML skills with proficiency in distributed systems, data architecture, and largescale service development. Youll define and invent the endtoend foundation that brings Agentic AI, Create AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI to lifespanning model orchestration, inference systems, data pipelines, caching and storage layers, session analytics, and continuous evaluation frameworks.
This role blends applied research and engineering leadershipideal for someone who can connect modeling innovation with productiongrade systems that deliver realtime, customerfacing intelligence at scale.
Architect and evolve the complete AI stack for Adobe Expresscovering Agentic AI, Construct AI, Imaging AI, Motion AI, and Personalization AI.
Develop and operationalize endtoend systemsintegrating microservices, data pipelines, LLM orchestration layers, inhouse and thirdparty models, databases, caches, session analytics, and evaluation systems into a cohesive architecture.
Develop largescale data and inference infrastructure to support model training, finetuning, evaluation, and deploymentemploying Spark, Kafka, Flink, and other distributed frameworks.
Lead development of experimentation and evaluation systems, encompassing sessionlevel analytics, feedback loops, and quality metrics that drive continuous improvement.
Work closely with applied research, product, and platform teams to implement LLMs and other AI models into customerfacing services.
Drive architectural strategy for Express AI Foundationsconnecting ML models, reasoning engines, and data streams into adaptive, intelligent systems.
Mentor senior engineers and scientists, encouraging excellence across architecture, experimentation, and AI system composition.
10+ years of experience in largescale distributed systems AI infrastructure, or ML platform engineering.
~ Deep understanding of ML and LLM fundamentalstraining, finetuning, deployment, and evaluation workflows.
~ Proven expertise in building and scaling data pipelines, realtime streaming systems, and eventdriven architectures (Kafka, Spark, Flink, etc.).
~ Strong background in caching strategies, database development, and performance optimization for largescale serving systems.
~ Proficiency in Python, Java, C++, or Go, with an emphasis on distributed systems, cloudnative deployment, and performance tuning.
~ Skill to merge engineering precision with practical research understanding, connecting prototyping and production.
~ Bachelors or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Data Science, Machine Learning, or a related technical field.
Experience architecting AI assistants, building agents, or multimodal creative systems.
Experience with MLOps pipelines, feature stores, and model registries.
Why Adobe
At Adobe, were crafting the future of creativity through intelligence. The AI Foundations team combines the agility of a startup with the scale and mission of Adobeconstructing the AI stack for Adobe Express, spanning Agentic, Design, Imaging, Motion, and Personalization AI. Join us to develop the infrastructure that brings adaptive, autonomous, and humancentered AI to millions of creators worldwide
Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on gender, race or color, ethnicity or national origin, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other applicable characteristics protected by law. Adobe aims to make Adobe.If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, email accommodations@adobe.Employment Type: Fulltime
Research, Analyst, and Information Technology
Industries: Advertising Services, IT Services and IT Consulting, and Software Development
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