Senior Staff Applied Scientist - AI/ML

Hands-on experience developing transformer, diffusion, or multimodal architectures through direct training or adaptation of model parameters.

Strong Python and PyTorch skills, including experience developing, debugging, and improving research-quality model code.

Experience with end-to-end model development, including data preparation, training, evaluation, and failure analysis.

Experience with post-training techniques such as supervised fine-tuning, preference optimization, reinforcement learning, alignment.

Experience optimizing inference latency, throughput, memory utilization, or serving cost.

Experience with synthetic-data generation, filtering, and quality control.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several  U.S. geographic markets, and we pay differently based on those defined markets. The U.S. pay range for this position is $182,900 -- $352,350 annually. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for the job location during the hiring process.



In California, the pay range for this position is $243,300 - $352,350


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In addition, certain roles may be eligible for long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.

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Adobe is seeking Applied Scientists at both early-career and senior levels to develop AI innovations from research concepts through product validation and technology transfer.

You will identify promising research directions; design, train, post-train, and rigorously evaluate multimodal architectures, with particular emphasis on image and video editing; and contribute to technical strategy.

You will strengthen the broader research and engineering team through technical judgment, experimentation, collaboration, and, at senior levels, mentorship.

This role requires hands-on model development and applied research.

Experience limited to prompt engineering or model-API integration is insufficient.

Identify research advances with the potential to create differentiated Adobe product capabilities.

Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity.

Our 30,000+ employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours.