Adobe · 1 day ago
Senior Applied Scientist
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$183K/yr - $352K/yrAdobe is a company focused on changing the world through digital experiences. They are seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to conduct innovative research and development in post-training alignment and model distillation for large-scale generative AI models, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance Adobe products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)ConsultingEnterprise SoftwareGraphic DesignImage RecognitionPhoto EditingSaaSSoftwareUX DesignWeb Design
Responsibilities
Conduct innovative research and development in post-training alignment and model distillation for large-scale generative AI models
Design and evaluate techniques such as RLHF, DPO/GRPO, SFT, reward modeling, and preference optimization to improve instruction-following, controllability, and safety
Develop efficient distillation, compression, and inference acceleration methods to make frontier models deployable at scale
Collaborate with researchers, engineers, and product teams to transfer post-training innovations into Adobe products
Build and maintain pipelines to evaluate generative models across quality, efficiency, and safety metrics
Convert research ideas/papers into production-ready implementations in Python and modern ML toolkits
Provide technical mentorship and guidance to peers and junior researchers
Qualification
Required
Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Machine Learning, or a related field
Strong hands-on experience with large-scale generative AI training and post-training (SFT, RLHF, DPO/GRPO, distillation)
Familiarity with diffusion models, transformers, or other state-of-the-art generative architectures
Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
Strong coding and prototyping ability in Python, PyTorch, and ML infrastructure tools
Working with product teams on technology transfers
Good publication record in Computer Science, AI/ML or related fields
Benefits
Long-term incentives in the form of a new hire equity award.
Company
Adobe
Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Founded in 1982
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$2.5MKey Investors
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1986-08-20IPO
1984-10-01Series Unknown· $2.5M
Leadership Team
Shantanu Narayen
CEO
Dan Durn
Chief Financial Officer
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