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Adobe · 7 hours ago

Senior Applied Scientist

positionSan Jose, CA
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level
money$164K/yr - $313K/yr

Adobe is a company dedicated to changing the world through digital experiences. They are looking for a Senior Applied Scientist to join their Firefly Applied Science & Machine Learning group, where the candidate will develop and fine-tune large-scale models for video understanding and generation.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)ConsultingEnterprise SoftwareGraphic DesignImage RecognitionPhoto EditingSaaSSoftwareUX DesignWeb Design
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Responsibilities

Develop and fine-tune (e.g., ViTs, VLMs, multimodal encoders) large-scale foundation models for video understanding and generation
Drive data for models: design schemas, create/curate large-scale multimodal datasets (image/video/text/edits), and build automated filters, alignment, and de-duplication at production scale
MLLM & Editing FMs: research, train, and evaluate multimodal LLMs and editing-oriented foundation models that enable creation, transformation, and in-product editing workflows
Collaborate with extraordinary researchers and engineers to bring research ideas to production
Stay on top of the latest ML research (e.g., diffusion models, alignment methods, multimodal understanding) and translate advances into practical solutions

Qualification

Machine LearningVideo UnderstandingGenerative AIPythonPyTorchDistributed TrainingComputer VisionLarge-scale DatasetsCommunication

Required

Masters or Ph.D. in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields
Publication record and good academic background in Computer Vision and foundational models
Excellent communication skills
Strong proficiency in Python and PyTorch
Experience with distributed training and its common strategies
Experience in state-of-the-art Generative AI technologies, such as VLMs and diffusion models
Strong hands-on experience working on image/video understanding, generation and editing
Working with large-scale datasets

Benefits

Short-term incentives are in the form of the Annual Incentive Plan (AIP)
Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award

Company

Adobe

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Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
dateFounded in 1982
location
San Jose, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
http://www.adobe.com

H1B Sponsorship

Adobe has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (1160)
2024 (1217)
2023 (750)
2022 (878)
2021 (742)
2020 (477)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$2.5M
Key Investors
Apple
1986-08-20IPO
1984-10-01Series Unknown· $2.5M

Leadership Team

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Shantanu Narayen
CEO
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Dan Durn
Chief Financial Officer
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