Machine Learning Engineer 5.5

Overview

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Challenge:
Search, Discovery, and Content AI (SDC) is a cornerstone of Adobe’s ecosystem, enabling creative professionals and everyday users to access, discover, and leverage a wide array of digital assets and creative content, including images, videos, documents and more. With increasing demand for intuitive search, contextual discovery, and seamless content interactions across Adobe products like Express, Lightroom, and Adobe Stock, SDC is evolving into a generative AI powerhouse.

This team develops state-of-the-art solutions for intent understanding, personalized recommendations, and action orchestration to transform how users interact with content. Working with massive datasets and cutting-edge technologies, you will help redefine the discovery experience and drive user success. If working at the intersection of machine learning, generative AI, and real-time systems excites you, we’d love to have you join us.

Responsibilities:
As a Machine Learning Engineer on the SDC team, you will develop and optimize machine learning models and algorithms for search, recommendation, and content understanding across diverse content types, including images, videos, pdfs, vector graphics, and so on. You will build and deploy scalable generative AI solutions to enable intelligent content discovery and contextual recommendations within Adobe products. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will integrate ML models into production systems, ensuring high performance, reliability, and user impact. Your role will involve researching, designing, and implementing state-of-the-art techniques in natural language understanding, computer vision, and multimodal learning for content and asset discovery. You will also contribute to the end-to-end ML pipeline, including data preprocessing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring, while pushing the boundaries of computational efficiency to meet the needs of real-time, large-scale applications. Partnering with product teams, you will identify customer needs and translate them into innovative solutions that prioritize usability and performance. Additionally, you will mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers and cross-functional collaborators, driving excellence and innovation within the team.

What You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Data Science, or a related field.
• 8–12 years of industry experience building and deploying machine learning systems at scale.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python (for ML/AI) and Java (for production-grade systems).
• Strong expertise in machine learning frameworks and tools (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
• Solid understanding of mathematics and ML fundamentals: linear algebra, statistics, optimization, and numerical methods.
• Experience with deep learning techniques for computer vision (e.g., CNNs, transformers), natural language understanding (e.g., BERT, GPT), or multimodal AI.
• Proven track record of delivering ML solutions to production environments, optimizing performance, and ensuring reliability.
• Knowledge of large-scale distributed systems and frameworks (e.g., Kubernetes, Spark, Hadoop).
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to innovate new solutions for complex challenges.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

• Experience with generative AI (e.g., Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, MidJourney) and its application in content creation or discovery.
• Knowledge of computational geometry, 3D modeling, or animation pipelines.
• Familiarity with real-time recommendation systems or search indexing.
• Publications in peer-reviewed journals or conferences in relevant fields.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a dynamic, innovative team shaping the future of AI-powered creative tools.
• Work on impactful, large-scale projects that touch millions of users daily.
• Enjoy the benefits and resources of a leading global company with the agility of a startup environment.

If you’re excited to build state-of-the-art ML solutions that empower creativity and transform how people interact with content, join us in making a difference!

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