Principal Machine Learning Services Engineer: Architecting Firefly's Generative AI Landscape

7 days ago


San Jose, California, United States Adobe Full time

Elevate Digital Experiences with Adobe

Our Mission

At Adobe, we're committed to transforming the world through digital experiences that inspire and captivate audiences. As a leader in creative generative AI, we're poised to revolutionize the way our Enterprise customers interact with their customers.

The Opportunity

We're seeking a seasoned Principal ML Services Engineer to join our Firefly team, where you'll be instrumental in shaping the backend services that power our Generative AI features. This is a unique chance to architect and develop GPU-optimized model pipelines, ensuring seamless scalability and reliability for our Enterprise customers.

What You'll Do

  1. Contribute to the development of Firefly's backend services, driving the adoption of Generative AI across our applications and surfaces.
  2. Design and develop efficient model pipelines for custom Generative AI solutions, catering to the needs of our premium customers.
  3. Define the architecture for scalable and reliable cloud services, ensuring seamless SLAs for our Enterprise customers.
  4. Contribute to Project Colligo, the AI superhighway that manages and serves a collection of ML models in a highly scalable and resilient system.
  5. Develop critical business logic in Firefly services, ensuring accurate metering of usage, entitlement checks, quota limits, and upsell workflows.

What You'll Need

  1. A proven track record of building, optimizing, and operating GPU-intensive ML workloads in production environments.
  2. Experience in architecting cloud services and infrastructure for large-scale use (5B+ requests per month).
  3. Deep understanding of model serving, orchestration, scaling, and GPU resource management.
  4. Extensive software engineering experience and proficiency in Python, ML, PyTorch, AIT, AOT, CUDA, GPU drivers, Kubernetes, and AWS.
  5. Nice to have: Java.

Compensation and Benefits

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across various U.S. geographic markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $189,400 -- $357,900 annually, with pay varying based on work location and job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Adobe offers a comprehensive benefits package, including equal employment opportunities and affirmative action policies.

Adobe's Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Adobe is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and affirmative action employer. We value diversity and inclusion, and we're committed to creating exceptional employee experiences that foster respect, equality, and access to opportunities for all.

Accessibility and Accommodations

Adobe aims to make Adobe.com accessible to any user. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation to navigate our website or complete the application process, please email us at accommodations@adobe.com or call (408) 536-3015.

Our Values

Adobe values a free and open marketplace for all employees and has policies in place to ensure we don't engage in illegal agreements with other companies to not recruit or hire each other's employees.



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